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noun

Spiritualist 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritualist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bunter was ill, and could not leave his berth for a good many days. He became a convinced spiritualist, not enthusiastically—that could hardly have been expected from him—but in a grim, unshakable way. He could not be called exactly friendly to the disembodied inhabitants of our globe, as Captain Johns was. But he was now a firm, if gloomy, recruit ...

— Tales Of Hearsay • Joseph Conrad

... laboratory windows until the discussion caught him. He wore a brown velvet jacket and was reputed to be enormously rich. His name was Lagune. He was not a regular attendant, but one of those casual outsiders who are admitted to laboratories that are not completely full. He was known to be an ardent spiritualist—it was even said that he had challenged Huxley to a public discussion on materialism, and he came to the biological lectures and worked intermittently, in order, he explained, to fight disbelief with its own weapons. He rose greedily ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... the father of Susannah B. Bassett, "Sukey B." for short, who played the melodeon. He had been, by successive seizures, a Seventh Day Baptist, a Second Adventist, a Millerite, a Regular, and was now the most energetic of Come-Outers. Later he was to become a Spiritualist ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

Words linked to "Spiritualist" : psychic, spiritualistic, medium