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Definition of Spiritualist
1. Noun. Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead. "He consulted several mediums"
Generic synonyms: Psychic
Derivative terms: Spiritualism, Spiritualism
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or connected with spiritualism.
Partainyms: Spiritualism, Spiritualism
Derivative terms: Spiritualism, Spiritualism
Definition of Spiritualist
1. n. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
2. a. Spiritualistic.
Definition of Spiritualist
1. Noun. (spiritualism) Somebody who practises spiritualism; somebody who believes in the possibility of communication with the dead; somebody who attempts to communicate with the dead. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiritualist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Spiritualist
1. 1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism. 3. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiritualist
Literary usage of Spiritualist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Theism by Borden Parker Bowne (1879)
"Until it is refuted, therefore, the spiritualist will continue to urge it. ...
The spiritualist says it is the unitary, substantial soul, which abides ..."
2. Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1863)
"YOU happen to be one of the men ordained from the foundation of the world to be
a spiritualist. There are many unlike you who are spiritualists, ..."
3. Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1863)
"YOU happen to be one of the men ordained from the foundation of the world to be
a spiritualist. There are many unlike you who are spiritualists, ..."
4. Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1868)
"YOU happen to be one of the men ordained from the foundation of the world to be
a spiritualist. There are many unlike you who are spiritualists, ..."
5. American Spiritual Magazine by Samuel Watson (1876)
"I am a Christian spiritualist, because I believe we will be like Christ, resurrected
into Paradise at death, and like him be able to appear to our friends ..."
6. The Truths of Spiritualism: Immortality Proved Beyond a Doubt by Living by Ebenezer V. Wilson (1876)
"A Dialogue between a Christian and a spiritualist — A Conversation on the Cars — A
... spiritualist. I am going to do with it just what you do with the ..."
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