Dictionary

spiritistic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• spĭrĭtĭsʹtĭk (Received-Pronunciation)
• /spɪɹɪˈtɪstɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Old French espiritbor. Middle English spirit English spirit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English spiritistic From spirit + -istic.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (a.k.a. modern spiritualism); spiritualistic.
   • 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
   • 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:
   • The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap. 1880, William Dean Howells, chapter 4, in The Undiscovered Country, page 70:
   • New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras. 1898, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 52, page 493:
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (1)

fi spiritistinen (of or pertaining to spiritism)