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(in spiritualism) the substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance
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ectoplasm
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Word definitions for ectoplasm in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1883, of amoebas, "exterior protoplasm of a cell;" 1901 of spirits, from ecto- + -plasm . Related: Ectoplasmic .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ectoplasm \Ec"to*plasm\, n. [Ecto- + Gr. ? form.] (Biol.) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. The ectosarc of protozoan.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ectoplasm may refer to: Ectoplasm (cell biology) , the outer part of the cytoplasm Ectoplasm (paranormal) , supposed physical substance that manifests as a result of energy Ectoplasm (radio show) , BBC Radio 4 comedy series Ectoplasm, the outer layer of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context parapsychology English) The visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead. 2 (context parapsychology English) An immaterial or ethereal substance, especially the transparent ...
Usage examples of ectoplasm.
Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunist land crab, it will hang you and catch your jissom like a scrutable dog, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.
He felt himself lifted bodily into the air, and then an excruciating, crunching pain in his arm as the ectoplasm tore free.
Year after year, decade after decade, the ectoplasm has grown weaker and weaker, and more and more desperate.
Tall, skeletal, wreathed in glimmering rags, the ectoplasm emerged from the tunnel mouth.
Fitz staggered into the crypt after the ectoplasm, looking confused and dishevelled.
The ectoplasm dispersed, its shining radiance flickering around the confines of the tomb like lightning.
But right now, that ectoplasm is the only thing that can stop the monster.
Leaves and twigs whirled around them in a storm of debris, trailing silken threads of ectoplasm, winding an intricate grey web in the air.
It was like a glass flower opening, and Haze knew it was the alien, the psychic energy and the ectoplasm as they truly were in their own universe, combined, immense, beautiful, grateful.
The Doctor had to link up with the ectoplasm first, though, because it was too weak to do it on its own.
He had the bottle and the glasses ready when the tall, fragile young man seeped in through the doorway of his day cabin, looking like a wisp of ectoplasm decked out in Survey Service uniform.
Colorless goo, the ectoplasm of magically created mass, spattered out between the crushed plates and hide and down into the car.
Both of us were coated in dust that was stuck to the stinking, colorless goo, the ectoplasm that magic called from somewhere else whenever generic mass was called for in a spell.
Catherine started producing ectoplasm during a contact with the ten-year-old daughter of a well-to-do furniture-store owner.
Zebulon leapt out of his chair, turning over the table, and the ectoplasm disappeared.