单词	spiritualist
释义	spiritualist /ˈspɪrɪtʃ(ʊ)əlɪst / /ˈspɪrɪtjʊəlɪst/ noun 1A person who believes that the spirits of the dead can communicate with living people: he became an ardent spiritualist, attending seances and insisting on their authenticity... The scriptwriter takes Myrtle to a spiritualist. Being a master spiritualist myself, I can assure you that Madame Blanche is a fake. The learned from all fields of science, as well as spiritualists, clairvoyants, and cranks, have studied the remains to try uncover the secrets of the past. 2 Philosophy An advocate of the doctrine that the spirit exists as distinct from matter, or that spirit is the only reality: a non-denominational spiritualist... We may, as spiritualists, try to explain our memory's failures and blunders by secondary causes. The pure associationist's account of our mental life is almost as bewildering as that of the pure spiritualist. Each was a spiritualist, and each comprehended meanings in realms of apprehension different from the physical world. adjective Relating to the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with living people: spiritualist mediums who claim to be able to contact the dead an active member of the spiritualist movement... Part of the chaperone's motivation for accompanying her niece was to have access to the city's sizable spiritualist community. She was an active member of the spiritualist movement in Britain. They elaborated the connections between the telegraph and spiritualist phenomena in an effort to legitimize their supernatural experiences. Derivatives spiritualistic /spɪrɪtʃʊəˈlɪstɪk/ /spɪrɪtjʊəˈlɪstɪk/ adjective ... Any discussion of his spiritualistic bent must begin with Mrs Piper. The terms he uses (haunting, poltergeist, medium, seance) come from a spiritualistic perspective. I do not myself contend that the proof is as overwhelming as in the case of spiritualistic phenomena.
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