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.

   New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.

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

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

   1867, England’s Leader, 15th June 1867 issue, page 333, column 1

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

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

   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.

   1949, Horace Meyer Kallen, The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans, 2nd edition, Farrar, Straus, page 151

   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.

   1993, Steven C. Hayes, Varieties of Scientific Contextualism, Context Press, →ISBN, page 36, →ISBN