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English
Etymology
From spirit + -istic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
spiritistic (comparative more spiritistic, superlative most spiritistic)
- 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, chapter 4, in The Undiscovered Country, page 70:The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.
1949, Horace Meyer Kallen, The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans, 2nd edition, 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, page 36, →ISBN: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