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

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

Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to this theory, mediumistic phenomena would lose their mystic or mystifying character and would pass into the domain of ordinary physics and of physiology.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille