Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SPIRITUALIST

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Definitions of SPIRITUALIST

1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
2. One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
3. Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
4. (philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
5. (historical, Christianity) An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.
6. (historical, Christianity) Pertaining to the Spiritualists.

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Examples of Using SPIRITUALIST in a Sentence

• Yeats; his wife, a spiritualist, practised it, and Yeats put large chunks of it into his prose work, A Vision and much of his later poetry, but Yeats was not a surrealist.
• The Chesterfield Spiritualist Camp District and George Makepeace House are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
• Haslett is named after James and Sarah Haslett, a couple who founded the Nemoka Spiritualist Camp on the shore of Pine Lake (Original name for Lake Lansing).
• In early occult and spiritualist literature, remote viewing was known as telesthesia and traveling clairvoyance.
• Cayce described himself as a devout Christian and denied being a Spiritualist or communicating with spirits.
• Summer – The engraver and publisher Cornelis Bos relocates from Antwerp to Paris, after becoming involved with an antisacerdotalist, free-thinking spiritualist sect.
• Perhaps the best-known series of séances conducted at that time were those of Mary Todd Lincoln who, grieving the loss of her son, organized Spiritualist séances in the White House, which were attended by her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, and other prominent members of society.
• Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm".
• November 2 – Spiritualist, suffragette, and Free Love advocate Victoria Woodhull publishes shocking allegations in Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly claiming in "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case" article that Henry Ward Beecher had committed adultery with Theodore Tilton's wife.
• He wrote a short autobiography titled Martian Diary, co-wrote The Coming of the Saucers with Kenneth Arnold, edited Richard Sharpe Shaver The Hidden World, and republished the original edition of the spiritualist work,.
• This was the first demonstration of spiritualism held before a paying public and inaugurated a long history of public events featured by spiritualist mediums and leaders in the United States and in other countries.
• Serving the principles of the Spiritualist movement, and open to members and non-members alike, the SAGB offers rooms where the public, whether Spiritualist or not, may sit for readings with spirit mediums.
• As a young man, Flammarion was exposed to two significant social movements in the western world: the thoughts and ideas of Darwin and Lamarck and the rising popularity of spiritism with spiritualist churches and organizations appearing all over Europe.
• La séance de spiritisme (The spiritualist seance) (1931, live action advertisement by Jean Aurenche with stop-action animation by Grimault and Jacques Brunius).
• The spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle who attended the séance was unaware of the trickery and declared the clairvoyance manifestations to be genuine.
• The Holdens held regular Spiritualist seances at home in Olton, with the intention of communicating with the spirit of their deceased wife and mother.
• He expands upon this theme more explicitly in An Appendix, a pederastic and spiritualist manifesto duplicated from a cursive manuscript.
• She was able to find a quiet farm in Torresdale, owned by the spiritualist Sada Bailey Fowler, where being closer to nature provided a peaceful and relaxing environment for her to recover in.
• Of the album's remaining songs, Metal Hammer states that "Moonchild" is loosely based on the Aleister Crowley novel of the same name, while "Infinite Dreams" is about a character who "implores a spiritualist to unlock the meaning behind his tortured dreams", although Sputnikmusic state that the song also explores "themes of reality, life after death, and the meaning of life".
• In 1920 McCabe publicly debated the Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle on the claims of Spiritualism at Queen's Hall in London.
• Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1838–1898), American painter, author, newspaper editor and printer, spiritualist and feminist.
• Founded by spiritualist and medium Lekhraj Kripalani, originally a follower of the Vaishnavite Vallabhacharya sect, the movement is known for the prominent role played by celibate women in it, and purports to teach an ancient form of meditation known as Raja Yoga.
• In 1940, Congressman Frank Eugene Hook sought to discredit the Committee, and Dies personally, by presenting evidence linking Dies to the agitator and spiritualist William Dudley Pelley; but Dies was able to show that the documents cited by Hook were forged.
• Khánum was born to Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell and American spiritualist Mary Ellis Bolles, both Christians who later became Baháʼís.
• He is also portrayed as being clairvoyant, allowing the film-makers to ascribe to Abberline the contributions of spiritualist and psychic Robert James Lees, thus combining the two into one character and simplifying the graphic novel's narrative.

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