| 释义 |
mediumize, v.|ˈmiːdɪəmaɪz|
[f. medium + -ize.]
trans. To convert into a (spiritualistic) ‘medium’. Hence ˌmediumiˈzation.
1880Argosy XXIX. 460 He need have laid no command on the Captain, for the poor man was planted there: chloroformed, mesmerised, mediumised. 1880Howells Undisc. Country ii. (1881) 29 The crude and unsettled spiritual existence reached by our present system of mediumisation. |