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单词 séance
释义

séancen.

/ˈseɪɒns/
Etymology: French séance a sitting, < Old French seoir ( < Latin sedēre) to sit.
1. gen. A sitting of a deliberative or administrative body (esp. of a learned society), or of a number of persons assembled for discussion, or instruction by a lecturer, or the like. Also séance royale, a royal audience. Loosely (chiefly U.S.), a meeting or discussion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > occasion of hearing
audience1426
séance royale1789
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > sitting of
sittingc1410
session1444
access1587
diet1587
session1613
sederunt1628
seat1635
séance1789
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion
debate1393
revolutionc1425
treatingc1450
disputation1489
debatement1536
debating1548
discuss1571
discussion1598
reasoning1611
entertainment1625
ventilationa1631
ventilating1660
discussal1809
skull session1959
séance1962
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 20 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 115 A message from the King.., that he should meet them on Monday; and, under pretence of preparing the hall for the seance royale, the French guards were placed..to prevent any of the deputies entering the room.
1803 C. Lamb Let. 23 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 60 Your seances & conversationis, which I have a shrewd suspicion must be something dull.
1884 Kendal Mercury 3 Oct. 5/3 The British Association..should be a..secret conclave, and every one attending its seances for reporterial purposes deserves to have his ears cropped.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 Come, he counselled, to close the séance.
1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxiv. 16 At the Seance Royale last Thursday he had talked of His death in defence of the country.
1962 W. Schirra in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 32 We would lock ourselves up in our office at Langley until we had a solution that satisfied us all... We called a session like this a ‘seance’.
1977 Time 17 Jan. 41/1 For an hour most nights, he conducts a long-distance séance (at $3 a minute) with..his Australian proconsul, from the..desk in his study.
2. spec. A meeting for the investigation or exhibition of spiritualistic phenomena.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > seance
séance1845
sitting1851
circle1856
session1858
spooking1919
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. xv. 153 The hour was so late that no other boys were to be found; and so the seance broke up.
1860 All Year Round 28 July 373 The spirits rapped out their dismissal, and the séance was at an end.
1881 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) 4th Ser. 225 The disciple who has been at a spiritualist's séance.
1902 F. Podmore Mod. Spiritualism I. i. ii. 41 The development of the Poltergeist performance into the phenomena of the séance-room.
3.
a. A ‘sitting’ for medical treatment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > a sitting for treatment
séance1875
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 37 The electrical séances should be tri-weekly, each lasting about fifteen minutes, and they should be persevered in for months.
1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) iv. 101 After the third massage séance the patient ceased having these mishaps during several hours.
b. A ‘sitting’ for a portrait.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > sitting
sitting1656
séance1877
1877 B. Disraeli Let. 14 Apr. (1929) viii. 117 Now I am going to the Palace for my 3rd Seance [to Von Angeli].
1919 R. Fry Let. 21 Oct. (1972) II. 460 All wanted me to draw their portraits so that every evening in the café I had to have a séance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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