| 释义 |
mediumship|ˈmiːdɪəmʃɪp|
[f. medium + -ship.]
1. Intervening agency, instrumentality.
1882L. Wingfield Gehenna II. ix. 274 Subterranean convulsions, through whose mediumship volcanic flames..would purify the heavens. 1882Rider Haggard Cetywayo 198 The government announced through the mediumship of the Queen's Speech that [etc.]. 1890‘Annie Thomas’ On Children I. vii. 131 He had been made known to them through the mediumship of an Aldermanic friend.
2. Spiritualism. The attribute of being a ‘medium’; action as a ‘medium’.
1868Law Rep., Equity Cases VI. 663 The wonderful things done by the spirits through the Defendant's mediumship. 1875Q. Jrnl. Sci. XII. 48 As an instance of hereditary mediumship, ‘the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy’. 1881G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages (1893) 329 A séance held through the mediumship of Mr. Bastian. 1898A. Lang Making Relig. viii. 169, I cannot feel..as if the case of physical mediumship itself, as a freak of nature, were definitely closed. |