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mediumistic

American  
[mee-dee-uh-mis-tik] / ˌmi di əˈmɪs tɪk /

adjective

  1. pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.


mediumistic British  
/ ˌmiːdɪəˈmɪstɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a spiritual medium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of mediumistic

First recorded in 1865–70; medium + -istic

Example Sentences

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And, finally, she can talk through his mouth, thus communicating directly with the narrator while Matthew is in a sort of mediumistic trance.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2015

There is certainly lots here to enchant, including Madge Gill's mediumistic fantasies and Henry Darger's cartoon tales of the fictional Robert Vivian's seven precocious daughters and the giant-winged Blengigomeneans.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2010

Occasionally, there emerges from the scrum of picture salesmen a dealer with an almost mediumistic sense of the art of his time and place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no amount of good or bad moral and religious qualities either constitutes or nullifies ability for mutual visibility and rapport between mediumistic persons.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

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