| 释义 |
spiritism|ˈspɪrɪtɪz(ə)m|
[f. spirit n. + -ism. So F. spiritisme.]
= spiritualism 3.
This form has to some extent been preferred by those specially interested in the subject, as being more distinctive than spiritualism.
1856Spiritual Herald July 203 Witchcraft was an unfriendly form of spiritism, and calculated to produce fear. 1864Reader 542/1 Spiritism (spirit-rapping, as commonly understood). 1865Cornh. Mag. Oct. 504 The Maories seem to be in advance of us, if not of our French and American cousins, in spiritism. 1876M. Davies Unorthodox Lond. 98 The line of demarcation between Swedenborgianism and modern Spiritualism—or Spiritism, as it is now called. 1880Howells Undiscov. Country iv. 69 In the development of the phenomena which now agitate the world, mesmerism came first, and spiritism came second. |