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spiritualist

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English spiritualist From spiritual + -ist.

  1. derived from -ist English -ist English spiritualist From spiritual + -ist
  2. derived from -istebor
  3. derived from -istader
  4. derived from spirituelbor
  5. derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder✻
  6. derived from spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der

Definitions

  1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only

    One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

  2. One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.

  3. One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism)

    One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Pertaining to spiritualism

      Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.

    2. An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing…

      An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.

    3. Pertaining to the Spiritualists.

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Derived

conspiritualist, nonspiritualist

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spiritualist. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at spiritualist. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at spiritualist

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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