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mediumistic

mediumistic adjective: of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.

Adjective

mediumistic (comparative more mediumistic, superlative most mediumistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
    • Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.1852, E. C. Rogers, Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane, Boston: Redding, No. 1, p. 88
    • Mr. Michie’s wife is mediumistic and liable to be controlled. One day an entity came to her and spoke through her to her husband […]1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, London: Hodder and Stoughton, pages 199–200

Examples of mediumistic in a sentence

  • Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 60:
  • I don’t imagine either of these young women has mediumistic gifts?1959, Shirley Jackson, chapter 7, in The Haunting of Hill House, London: Michael Joseph, published 1960:

Forms of mediumistic

comparativemore mediumistic
superlativemost mediumistic

Origin of mediumistic

From medium + -istic.

Words formed from mediumistic

Questions about mediumistic

What does mediumistic mean?
Mediumistic means of or pertaining to mediums (people claiming to contact the dead); relating to or having the ability to communicate with spirits.
How do you use mediumistic in a sentence?
Then there is that queer practice of the whites, psychometry, by which mediumistic people claim they can, by handling any object, tell events that occurred to the owner of it.
What part of speech is mediumistic?
Mediumistic is an adjective.

Words near mediumistic in the dictionary

  1. mediumised
  2. mediumises
  3. mediumising
  4. mediumism
  5. mediumist
  6. mediumistic
  7. mediumistically
  8. mediumists
  9. mediumization
  10. mediumize
  11. mediumized

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