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Definition of Seance

1. Noun. A meeting of spiritualists. "The seance was held in the medium's parlor"

Definition of Seance

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of séance) ¹

2. Noun. A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seance

1. a meeting of persons seeking spiritualistic messages [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seance

Literary usage of Seance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research (1888)
"I attended a seance of hers, held April llth, 1884. The cabinet was in one corner of the room; and during the entire seance there was sufficient light to ..."

2. Bygone Days in Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties by Frederick Francis Cook (1910)
"... A LINCOLN seance PROLOGUE : CHARLES H. REED, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY ... END — THE GREAT seance — MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON YOUTHFUL BRIDE — ENVIOUS WIDOW ..."

3. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of by Henry Seybert (1920)
"The Mediums said it was impossible to produce materialized forms as they had expected, and proceeded to give much the same sort of a seance as Mr. ..."

4. The Commencement Manual: Salutatories, Valedictories, Addresses and by Edith F A U (Palmer) Painton (1915)
"(i) THE CLASS seance OR CIRCLE A burlesque spiritualistic seance, which easily works in every part. The Class Hypnotist, as Salutatorian, puts the audience ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"seance du 8 Mai, 1837. Near the commencement of the Christian era, sugar was first mentioned under an appropriate name and form. " In India and Arabia Felix ..."

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