spiritualist

IPA: spˈɪrɪtʃʌwʌɫɪst

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
(philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of 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.
(historical, Christianity) 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.

Examples of "spiritualist" in Sentences

Dominican "spiritualist" - from the description she's a Santería practitioner.
*Gnosticism, a kind of spiritualist and occult philosophy which encourages liberalism
A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply.
Germany and England, corresponded regularly with Madame Blavatsky and Olcot, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving ad hoc séances.
He wasn't the ghost-raisin 'kind of spiritualist, and them that went to see a show, come away dissap'inted, for all he did was to talk and take up a collection.
We aren't sure, but we suspect that the girlfriend, from who he stole some gold bracelets and knows that he would be running home to momma, sent a "spiritualist" to invoke some "kharma" upon him.
The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration.
Already, in 1867, Ravaisson in his celebrated "Report" wrote these prophetic lines: "Many signs permit us to foresee in the near future a philosophical epoch of which the general character will be the predominance of what may be called spiritualist realism or positivism, having as generating principle the consciousness which the mind has in itself of an existence recognised as being the source and support of every other existence, being none other than its action."