spiritistic

English

Etymology

spirit +‎ -istic

Pronunciation

• enPR: spĭrĭtĭsʹtĭk, IPA^(key): /spɪɹɪˈtɪstɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk

Adjective

spiritistic (comparative more spiritistic, superlative most spiritistic)

1. Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (a.k.a. modern spiritualism); spiritualistic.
   • 1867, England’s Leader^?, 15th June 1867 issue, page 333, column 1

     That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray…so many weak and impressionable minds.

   • 1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country, chapter 4, page 70

     The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.

   • 1898, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 52, page 493

     New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.

   • 1949, Horace Meyer Kallen, The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans (2nd ed.; Farrar, Straus), page 151

     No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference.

   • 1993, Steven C. Hayes, Varieties of Scientific Contextualism (Context Press; →ISBN, 9781878978059), page 36

     All conventional philosophies assume the existence of a real world — a reality apart from knowers and their knowing — although not all indulge themselves in speculations concerning ontological matters. I make this claim even of the most spiritistic forms of idealism, in that to speak about the universe at all implies someone speaking and something spoken about — these two constituting the existent reality.

Translations

of or pertaining to spiritism

• Finnish: spiritistinen
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