释义 |
ideoplasm Spiritualism.|ˈɪdɪəʊplæz(ə)m| [f. ideo- + -plasm after ectoplasm.] = ectoplasm. So ˌideoˈplasmic a.; ˈideoplasmy (see quot. 1961).
1926A. Conan Doyle Hist. Spiritualism I. i. 7 Ectoplasm..has also been called ‘ideoplasm’, because it takes on in an instant any shape with which it is impressed by the spirit. 1961W. H. Salter Zoar vi. 63 The hypothesis of ‘ideoplasmy’, that is to say, the view that materialisations are produced from the medium's energy and a substance (‘ectoplasm’) supplied by him with the assistance perhaps of the sitters, and that they take form in accordance with the thoughts of those present. Ibid. vi. 69 A clumsy attempt, whether ideoplasmic or fraudulent, to imitate the established conception of a spirit? |