seance

IPA: sˈeɪɑns

Alternative spelling of séance. [A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.]

Examples of "seance" in Sentences

This is the second "seance" after the inaugural edition's sold-out success a year and a half ago.
His real joy, however, was in withdrawing for what might be called a seance of meditation from the world's business.
It begins with a Gypsy woman holding a kind of seance over a fat wad of supposedly cursed money for a rich, frightened woman.
"Al-f-u-r-d" was escorted home then to the cellar where the seance was a trifle more animated than usual, at least "Al-f-u-r-d's" cries so denoted.
She added with some little diffidence that the fee for a seance was a guinea, and, as she left, took a card out of a case, encrusted with glowing rubies, and gave it her.
Unlike previous decisions, by previous administrations that took place in seance-like settings, or were "divine" inspirations with no one from this world present to agree or disagree.
Far, far too many people who claim to be originalists think that originalism is some kind of seance in which you try channeling the drafters in the spirit world and divine what was on their minds when they proposed the text of the statute.
Mr. Dempster was not disposed to encourage her confidence; her strange inquiries about people he had been greatly interested in, recalled the seance which had so much startled Francis Hogarth, and he suspected that this must be the person who had written the letter the spirit had been questioned about, and, consequently, that she was Hogarth's mother; no mother, certainly, to be proud of!