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Spiritist

Spiritist \Spir"it*ist\, n. A spiritualist.

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spiritist

n. A believer in Spiritism; a spiritualist.

Usage examples of "spiritist".

There shall not be found among you anyone who: practices witchcraft, is a soothsayer or a sorcerer, interprets omens, conjures spells, is a medium or a spiritist, calls up the dead.

A medium or spiritist is a person who lets a spirit or spirits come into them.

Residence, second only to the Governor in the formal hierarchy of the Church, but under the political control of the Earth Spiritist barbarians of the Brigade.

When the day came I was lucky that my aunt had invited me to lunch beforehand, because the spiritist arrived at the house at least an hour before he was expected.

I did not wish to make myself at all interesting to the spiritist, because if he was alert he might have recognized me.

The spiritist himself was a young man of about my own age, slight of build, dark of hair and narrow of forehead.

What did follow was that with the aid of his female accomplice the spiritist appeared to fall into a Mesmeric trance.

This gentleman, whose name I shall render as Mr L, was the very first of our spiritist clients who had come to us on the recommendation of another.

I was lucky that my aunt had invited me to lunch beforehand, because the spiritist arrived at the house at least an hour before he was expected.

But aside from so-called quasi-possession--- those cases that are ultimately reducible to fraud, paranoia and hysteria--- the problem has always lain with interpreting the phenomena, the oldest interpretation being the spiritist, an impression that is likely to be strengthened by the fact that the intruding personality may have accomplishments quite foreign to the first.

The spiritist expects the spirit to reveal itself in outwardly perceptible phenomena as if it were part of the physical world.

Brazilian-African spiritist cult, with some Caribbean and Mexican overtones.

Lincoln was like most Plains towns, many Spiritist customs would be followed even if the religion were not.

It had been eleven centuries since the last religious war among humans, and no Spiritist had ever sponsored a pogrom, crusade, inquisition, jihad, or witch-hunt.

The central spire of the Spiritist Mother Church impaled the nearby sky.