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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

... "Never said nothing to nobody, and especially not to the daughter. Used to go off to bed while the old man and the girl held spiritualist doin's wherever we laid over. Went into trances, the girl did, and the old man give lectures about the car of progress that always rolls on and on and on, pervided you consult the spirits. Picked up quite a little money 's we ...

— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... drill-sergeant from his cradle. He carried a long stick like the shaft of a lance, with which he could poke a refractory mule, but which he always used when mounting by resting one end upon the ground, and with the left hand upon the saddle he ascended with the ease of a spiritualist "floating in the air." Iiani was very polite to ladies, and he knew their ways. He seldom advanced without an offering of some lovely flower or a small sprig of sweetly-scented herb, which he invariably ...

— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... The modern Spiritualist is only too forward to avow his understanding with the unseen powers; but he will have it that the spirits that he deals with are good and harmless. We must prove the spirits by the general effects of their communications—whether they be in accordance with the known laws of morality, ...

— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.

... guardian spirits, sometimes manifests it by his feet sinking into the rocky ground just as if in snow." He uses the very words of the Indian who described the same thing to me. And very recently in Philadelphia, in fact while I was writing the preceding remarks, a spiritualist named Gordon performed the very same trick. Having been detected, a full account of the manner of action appeared in the Press of that city. It was done by a peculiar method of stooping, and of concealing the stoop behind a skirt. It was a very odd coincidence that the explanation ...

— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland

... be an earnest champion of spiritualism, for it was at his house that the most wonderful phenomena were realized, when invisible spirits carried on their pranks with the furniture like human beings. Dr. Phelps was a thorough spiritualist, and introduced the spiritual doctrine into his sermons, though exercising the worldly wisdom of ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 - Volume 1, Number 2 • Various

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