Crossword clues for spiritualist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spiritualist \Spir"it*u*al*ist\, n.
One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
Spiritualist \Spir"it*u*al*ist\, a.
Spiritualistic.
--Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, "one who believes in the ability of the living to communicate with the dead via a medium," from spiritual + -ist (also see spirit (n.)). Earlier (1640s) "one with regard for spiritual things." Related Spiritualistic.\n\nEvery two or three years the Americans have a paroxysm of humbug -- ... at the present time it is Spiritual-ism.
[J.Dix, "Transatlantic Tracings," 1853]
\nWiktionary
a. Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic. n. 1 One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. 2 (context philosophy English) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism. 3 (context spiritism English) One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or connected with spiritualism [syn: spiritualistic]
n. someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: medium]
Usage examples of "spiritualist".
Presently Lang took off the tall hat he was wearing, placed it on his knee, produced paper and pencil, set the paper on the crown of the hat and began to write like a spiritualist automatist, if that is the right word, all the time keeping up a flow of argument and conversation with A.
As far as I could make out the Misses Tripp were vegetarians, theosophists, British Israelites, Christian Scientists, spiritualists and enthusiastic amateur photographers.
Hindus or what Western spiritualists and mystics call enlightenment, illumination, unio mystica.
They drew their inspiration not merely from Sozini, but from a variety of sources, for the doctrine appeared simultaneously among certain Anabaptist and Spiritualist sects.
Hindus or what Western spiritualists and mystics call enlightenment, illumination, unio mystica.
He closed his gold-tinted eyes tight, opening them to double size with the unconscious expectation that the letters would string together on their own to explain what had happened or what should be done, like the dial-plates of the spiritualists, which, it was claimed, spelled out the words of the dead when operated by a sufficiently talented medium.
Catholics, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, the Baptists, the Spiritualists, the Mormons, the Shakers, the Quakers, the Jews, the Campbellites, the infidels, the Christian Scientists, the Mind-Curists, the Faith-Curists, the train-robbers, the White Caps, the Moonshiners.
And the channellers, channelling away and the Spiritualist Church and all those who receive information from “Higher Sources”.
What's more, we have an opportunity, if the spiritualist or channelling contentions are true, to make contact with loved ones who have died.
Mormon Bootstrap-lifters, Mazdaznan Bootstrap-lifters, Spiritualist and Spirit-Fruit, Millerite and Dowieite, Holy Roller and Holy Jumper, Come-to-glory negro, Billy Sunday base-ball and Salvation Army bass-drum Bootstrap-lifters.
To mention only a few: The Atheist, The Shakers, The Infidel, The Millerites, The Agnostic, The Mormons, The Baptist, The Laurence Oliphant The Methodist, Harrisites, The Catholic, and the other The Grand Lama's people, 115 Christian sects, the The Monarchists, Presbyterian excepted, The Imperialists, The 72 Mohammedan sects, The Democrats, The Buddhist, The Republicans (but not The Blavatsky-Buddhist, the Mugwumps), The Nationalist, The Mind-Curists, The Confucian, The Faith-Curists, The Spiritualist, The Mental Scientists, The 2,000 East Indian The Allopaths, sects, The Homeopaths, The Peculiar People, The Electropaths, The Swedenborgians, The--but there's no end to the list.
She had been a circus bareback rider, a professional pianist, a businesswoman, and a spiritualist medium.
There were spiritualists and clairvoyants who were in constant con Sir tact with her, on a higher plane, and even one gentleman who offered to sell his own daughter, at a bargain rate, to replace the missing girl.
Was this a case for the oculists, the spiritualists, the Egyptologists, or for a detective?
He was not supposed to be cowering in his pajamas, terrified of the touch of an overdressed fake spiritualist with a poison ring.