| 词汇 | spiritualist |
| 释义 | spiritualist noun[ C ] (alsoSpiritualist)uk /ˈspɪr.ɪ.tʃu.əl.ɪst/ us /ˈspɪr.ə.tʃu.əl.ɪst/ someone who believes that living people can communicate with people who have died, especially someone who helps other people communicate with their dead family members: 相信生者可以同死者沟通的人，尤指帮助别人与逝去的家人交流的招魂术士 A spiritualist had told her he could give her a message from her dead husband.一个招魂术士告诉她可以替她的亡夫带信给她。 Emma became a Spiritualist, a person who believes that the living can communicate with the spirits of the dead.艾玛成了唯灵派教义的信徒，就是那种相信生者可以同死者亡灵沟通的人。 See spiritualism She tried to contact her dead sister though mediums and spiritualists. The business of keeping in touch with the dead is generally left to spiritualists and mediums. Their work appears to be the product of dramatic empathy, rather like that of spiritualists calling up the dead. Souls, spirits & ghosts apparition astral plane astral projection aura chi ectoplasm haunted incorporeal incubus necromancer necromancy possessed reincarnation soul spectrally succubus séance wight wraith zombie spiritualist adjective uk /ˈspɪr.ɪ.tʃu.əl.ɪst/ us /ˈspɪr.ə.tʃu.əl.ɪst/ believing that living people can communicate with people who have died, or relating to this belief: 相信唯灵论的，唯灵论的 A spiritualist medium insisted that the dead girl would return for her best friend's wedding.一个唯灵学说的传媒体坚称那个逝去的女孩会回到人间来参加她好朋友的婚礼。 She goes to the spiritualist church.她参加唯灵派教会的活动。 See spiritualism She decided to visit a spiritualist medium. A few days after his death, a spiritualist meeting was arranged for him to make an appearance from beyond the grave. He was prominent in the spiritualist movement, often attending seances. Souls, spirits & ghosts apparition astral plane astral projection aura chi ectoplasm haunted incorporeal incubus necromancer necromancy possessed reincarnation soul spectrally succubus séance wight wraith zombie Examples of spiritualistspiritualist Even within the spiritualist community the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice. A third feature of significance to spiritualists concerns the affective nature of what went on within seances themselves. At the opposite end of the cultural spectrum are spiritualists of a different breed. The same performative dynamics structure another spiritualist practice, materialization, whereby a spirit is clothed in temporary flesh derived from the medium's own body. Spiritualist treatises are, in most cases, dreary compendiums of facts and observations. Spiritualist women acquired unprecedented power by taking their passive feminine role to the extreme. Yet when spiritualists appropriated the formulae of such scenes it was within a set of practices that explicitly denied the fact of death at all. In the circles of the learned older ideas and presuppositions fed into and fused with newer occult and spiritualist traditions. The irreducible ambiguity of the spiritualist women's position consisted in the fact that they were empowered by their own powerlessness. The novel's significance to spiritualists can be exemplified by a further detail. The ambiguity both dissociates the medium from the spirit, as required by the spiritualist protocol, and covertly establishes their commonality, not to say identity. Many prominent spiritualists dissociated themselves completely, while others took an uneasy wait-and-see attitude. The spiritualist medium, in other words, is a ghost's writer, somebody who lends his (or more often her) body to an immaterial spirit in order to produce a text. Home became the exemplar medium, continually cited by spiritualists in support of their beliefs, and the most challenging case for critics of spiritualism to deal with. Ghosts-written texts were not a new phenomenon; a steady stream of them followed in the wake of the great spiritualist movement of the second half of the nineteenth century. See all examples of spiritualist These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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