spiritualist

[ spir-i-choo-uh-list ]

noun

Origin of spiritualist

First recorded in 1640–50; spiritual + -ist

It’s an idea that’s been peddled by charlatans and spiritualists for centuries.
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? | Charlotte Jee | October 18, 2022 | MIT Technology Review
Hostetter and other activists have created a strange assemblage of yogis, “spiritualists,” business owners and conventional Republicans, harnessing the fear and anger of Orange County elites.
Meet the police chief turned yoga instructor prodding wealthy suburbanites to civil war | Radley Balko | January 27, 2021 | Washington Post
She was more of a spiritualist, a New Age believer in the power of good and the mysteries of the universe.
The Day the Fairytale Died | Marilyn Johnson | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
MacLaine, avid spiritualist and searcher, is comfortable with the unanswerable.
Shirley MacLaine on ‘Bernie,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ and Her Lifetime Achievments | Lorenza Muñoz | April 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Taking as my thesis, then, the question, Am I a spiritualist?
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies

In his old age he became an ardent spiritualist, much to my surprise and puzzlement, and he died in that faith.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada Cambridge
The spiritualist declared that he was not himself, and retired with an air of displeasure from the table.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
There are such, put in the spiritualist; for instance—crabs; they are very nervous, and are easily thrown into a cataleptic state.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
The spiritualist repeated and quickened his movements; the crab stretched itself as before.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

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