Spiritualist

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spiritualist \Spir"it*u*al*ist\, n.
     1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one
        whose employment is of a spiritual character; an
        ecclesiastic.
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     2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
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     3. One who believes in direct intercourse with departed
        spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called
        mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts
        to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spiritualist \Spir"it*u*al*ist\, a.
     Spiritualistic. --Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spiritualist
       adj : of or relating to or connected with spiritualism [syn: {spiritualistic}]
       n : someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and
           the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: {medium}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiritualist":
     Berkeleian, Hegelian, Kantian, Neoplatonist, Platonist, animist,
     automatist, ecstatic, idealist, immaterialist, medium, necromancer,
     panpsychist, psychic, psychist, psychographist, spirit rapper,
     spiritist