adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
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Standard Lemma guide
spiritualist
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adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to the Spiritualists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Meaning 3
One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
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noun
Meaning 4
One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: Christianity
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adjective
Meaning 7
of or relating to or connected with spiritualism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
Meaning 8
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he consulted several mediums
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: medium, sensitive
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: psychic
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English spiritualist From spiritual + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: spiritualistinen — pertaining to spiritualism
- Finnish: spiritistinen — pertaining to spiritualism
- Finnish: hengellinen — pertaining to spiritualism
- Finnish: henkinen — pertaining to spiritualism
- French: spiritualiste — pertaining to spiritualism
- German: spiritualistisch — pertaining to spiritualism
- Portuguese: espiritualista — pertaining to spiritualism
- Russian: спиритуалисти́ческий (spiritualistíčeskij) — pertaining to spiritualism
- Dutch: spiritualistisch — Translations
- Catalan: espiritualista — one who professes a regard for spiritual things only
- Finnish: hengenmies — one who professes a regard for spiritual things only
- Catalan: espiritualista — philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- Finnish: spiritualisti — philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- Greek: σπιριτουαλιστής (spiritoualistís) — philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- Greek: σπιριτουαλίστρια (spiritoualístria) — philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- Hindi: आत्मवादी (ātmavādī) — philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- Esperanto: spiritualisto — one who communicates with the dead
- Finnish: spiritisti — one who communicates with the dead
- French: spiritualiste — one who communicates with the dead
- German: Spiritualist — one who communicates with the dead
- German: Spiritualistin — one who communicates with the dead
- Hebrew: יִדְּעוֹנִי (yid'oní) — one who communicates with the dead
- Japanese: 霊媒 (reibai) — one who communicates with the dead
- Japanese: 神媒 (shinbai) — one who communicates with the dead
- Portuguese: espiritualista — one who communicates with the dead
- Romanian: spiritualist — one who communicates with the dead
- Russian: спиритуали́ст (spiritualíst) — one who communicates with the dead
- Russian: спиритуали́стка (spiritualístka) — one who communicates with the dead
- Dutch: spiritualist — Translations