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ˈspiritist [f. spirit n. + -ist.] 1. One who believes in spiritism; a spiritualist.
1858Brownson's Q. Rev. Apr. 180 Mormons, Swedenborgians, and Spiritists, &c. 1867Christie in Manning Ess. Relig. & Lit. Ser. ii. 310 These remarks apply to such pretenders to Divine communications as..the Jansenists, and modern Spiritists. 1896Pop. Sci. Jrnl. L. 229 This condition finds its ideal fulfillment in the ‘developing séance’ of the spiritists. b. attrib. as adj. = spiritistic a.
1865Cornh. Mag. Apr. 481 Those who believe in spiritist and other marvels. 1877J. E. Carpenter tr. Tiele's Hist. Relig. 35 The spiritist side of Animism. 1887Amer. Nat. XXI. 497 The spiritist practices of Chinese women. 2. = spiritualist 3.
1878T. Sinclair Mount 39 Spiritists, or Comtists, let them keep to the moorlands of life. 1883L. Oliphant Altiora Peto II. 16 Why he should shrink from this hypothesis for fear of becoming a materialist, as much as the scientific man does from it for fear of becoming a spiritist. |