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/spˈɪrɪtʃəwəlɪst/ Listen

noun

Spiritualist n.

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.

One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.

adjective

Spiritualist adj. Spiritualistic.

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Etymology of 'Spiritualist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritualist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Another spiritualist exposure recently created a sensation in "spiritualistic circles," by the detection of a medium fraud in Portland, Maine, United States. Doctors Gerrish and Greene, of Portland, were instrumental in bringing about the issue. The medium in ...

— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant

... an unscientific and imaginary synonym for the sum total of observed phenomena. Consequently he holds to the dark and degrading doctrines of the Materialist, the Hylotheist; in opposition to the spiritualist, a distinction far more marked in the West than in the East. Europe draws a hard, dry line between Spirit and Matter: ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... hovel of the murdered wizard revealed the numerous applications by lovers, wives, and other anxious inquirers. Amongst other recent revivals of the 'Black Art' in Southern Europe already referred to, the inquisition at Rome upon a well-known English or American 'spiritualist,' when, as we learn from himself, he was compelled to make a solemn abjuration that he had not surrendered his soul to ...

— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams

... to keep up. For that matter she was good enough for any man. Then I hear she has joined the riding club, and an all day's ride has been planned for the next Saturday up to Stender's Spring, with a basket lunch and a romantic ride back by moonlight. Of course, I don't believe in any of this spiritualist stuff, but you can't tell me there ain't something in it, mind-reading or something, with the hunches you get when parties is ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... has more pure fun in it than anything Mr. Lincoln has written recently. The episode where the Christian Science lady meets the nervous old gentleman in the home of the spiritualist is uproarious. ...

— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall

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