séance

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See also: seance and Séance

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French séance (“sitting, session”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈseɪˌɑns/
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Noun

séance (plural séances)

  1. A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:
      [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
  2. (dated) The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter.

Translations

Verb

séance (third-person singular simple present séances, present participle séancing, simple past and past participle séanced)

  1. To hold a séance (communication with spirits).

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From séant +‎ -ance, possibly corresponding to Latin sedentia.

Pronunciation

Noun

séance f (plural séances)

  1. session

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French séance (“session”), from Latin sedentia.

Noun

séance

  1. séance: spiritual meeting

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