SPIRITUALISM
\spˈɪɹɪt͡ʃˌuːəlˌɪzəm], \spˈɪɹɪtʃˌuːəlˌɪzəm], \s_p_ˈɪ_ɹ_ɪ_tʃ_ˌuː_ə_l_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of SPIRITUALISM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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concern with things of the spirit
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(theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God
By Princeton University
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The quality or state of being spiritual.
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The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
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A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists.
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Spiritualistic.
By Oddity Software
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Spiritualistic.
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The belief that nothing is real except soul, or spirit; the belief that the souls of the dead communicate with the living, especially through a sensitive person called a medium; the practice of such belief.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Spiritualistic.
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The belief that departed spirits communicate with men.
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Philos. The doctrine of spiritual existences.
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Spiritualist.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Religious philosophy expressing the fundamental belief that departed spirits may be contacted by the living through a medium.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A being spiritual: the philosophical doctrine that nothing is real out soul or spirit: the doctrine that spirit has a real existence apart from matter: the belief that certain peculiar phenomena (as rapping, table-turning, etc.) are directly due to the influence of departed spirits, invoked by a "medium" (in this sense better called SPIRITISM).
By Daniel Lyons
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The state of being Spiritual; the doctrine of the existence of spirit independently of matter; belief in communication with the unseen world of the departed through the impressibility of certain media to so-called spiritual influence; the doctrine that all which exists is spirit or soul.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. State of being spiritual ;-the doctrine in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit or soul ;-a belief in the communication of intelligence from the world of spirits through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium.
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