| 单词 | proxy sitting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproxy sitting proxy sitting n. Spiritualism a sitting arranged with a medium and attended by a person at the request of another (usually unknown to the medium) who hopes for news of someone recently dead. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > seance > types of trumpet seance1912 rescue circle1921 proxy sitting1933 1927 N. Walker Bridge iii. iv. 139 I had known about practically nothing that was mentioned in the two previous proxy Leonard sittings.] 1933 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1932–3 41 139 (title) A consideration of a series of proxy sittings. 1948 Mind 57 393 Telepathy is again invoked as the source of supernormal material: a well-worn hypothesis, which fails to cover the data obtained by proxy-sittings, cross-correspondences and so forth. 2001 Skeptical Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Nov. 44 During the proxy sitting, one medium described Vandy as having been involved with ‘machinery’. < as lemmas |
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