mediumistic

American  

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

adjective

1. pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.

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mediumistic British  

/ ˌmiːdɪəˈmɪstɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to a spiritual medium

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Etymology

Origin of mediumistic

First recorded in 1865–70; medium + -istic

Example Sentences

“You’ve been here nearly a week and I suppose you’ve done nothing with planchette? Automatic writing? I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts? Those are Arthur’s bags right there. He brought his golf clubs, just in case.”

From Literature

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

Among its best-known exponents are Henry Darger, who painted baroque adventure stories featuring heroic female children known as the Vivian Girls, and Madge Gill, an English outsider artist who created thousands of mediumistic ink drawings through a spirit presence she called "Myrninerest".

From The Guardian

Any one who should compare these mediumistic writings with the philosophical works of the French astronomer would be led to believe that Mme.

From Project Gutenberg

It is rather curious to remark that if we compare the dictations given by the tables and the other so-called mediumistic phenomena with observations made in conditions of natural or hypnotic somnambulism, we find the same phases of incoherence, hesitation, error, lucidity and supernormal excitation of the faculties.

From Project Gutenberg