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.

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).

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). < n.1789
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