- (n.) A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng or during abnormal mental states, as in trances or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists.
- (n.) The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
- (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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