| 单词 | slate-writing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslate-writing slate-writing n. in spiritualism: writing performed on a slate, attributed to the agency of a medium, but without physical contact of the medium and the writing instrument. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > spirit-writing > slate-writing slate-writing1885 1885 Cent. Mag. July 382/2 She can do the trance business, and knocks, and slate-writing, and all that sort of thing. 1898 Sci. Amer. 8 Oct. 229/2 There has probably been nothing that has made more converts to spiritualism than the much talked of ‘Slate Writing Test’. 1904 I. K. Funk Widow's Mite 369 Slate-writing has given us a class of physical phenomena which is under special suspicion because of the great amount of fraud perpetrated through it. 1905 Smart Set Sept. 110/1 There is only one true magic. And it is not slate-writing, toe-joint snapping, fortune telling or the vending of charms. 1930 H. Carrington Story of Psychic Sci. vi. 147 The majority of messages..have been upon slates—hence the former popularity of ‘slate-writing’ mediums. 1977 B. Inglis Natural & Supernat. xxviii. 277 Slade was one of the practitioners of the new technique: slate-writing. < as lemmas |
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