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单词 familiar spirits
释义

familiar spirit

noun

1
: a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual
2
: the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy

Synonyms

  • apparition
  • bogey
  • bogie
  • bogy
  • ghost
  • hant [dialect]
  • haunt [chiefly dialect]
  • materialization
  • phantasm
  • fantasm
  • phantom
  • poltergeist
  • shade
  • shadow
  • specter
  • spectre
  • spirit
  • spook
  • sprite
  • vision
  • visitant
  • wraith
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Example Sentences

asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance
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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1545, in the meaning defined at sense 1

familiar spirits

noun

plural of familiar spirit
as in spirits
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • spirits
  • apparitions
  • ghosts
  • shadows
  • fantasms
  • visions
  • phantoms
  • haunts
  • wraiths
  • materializations
  • hants
  • vampires
  • specters
  • poltergeists
  • angels
  • shades
  • zombies
  • spooks
  • visitants
  • sprites
  • demons
  • phantasms
  • spectres
  • bogeys
  • shaitans
  • lamiae
  • bogies
  • daimones
  • incubuses
  • ghouls
  • doubles
  • familiars
  • doppelgängers
  • doppelgangers
  • genies
  • jinn
  • fetches
  • manes
  • lemures
  • devils
  • daimons
  • genii
  • genii
  • djinns
  • geniuses
  • jinns
  • djinn
  • succubi
  • incubi
  • lamias
  • imps
  • fiends
  • cacodemons
  • daemons
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