spirit seance

A séance held for the purpose of evoking spiritual manifestations. "Suppose a wild North-American Indian looking on at a spirit-séance in London." - Tylor: Prim. Cult. (ed. 1873), i. 155. IMG:content-0048.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of producing writing, profe edly by the intervention of a spirit or spirits, by mechanical means, as with a planchette (q. v.); through a locked book-slate or on a slate held firmly against the under surface of a table, or on pieces of blank (3) Rectified spirit : [RECTIFIED-SPIRIT. (4) The Spirit , the Holy Spirit : The Holy paper without a material instrument. Ghost (q. v.). spirit-circle, 8. A spirit-séance (q. v.). "The souls of Strau and Carl Vogt, as well as of Angustine and Jerome, are summoned by mediums to distant spirit-circles." -Tylor: Prim . Cult . (ed. 1873), i. 143.