Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sitting or session: as, a spiritualistic séance, in which intercourse is alleged to be held with spirits.
Wiktionary
- n. A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communications, so called.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a meeting of spiritualists
Etymologies
- From French séance ("sitting, session"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Filter 1
Hard words level 1
besotted, altricial, consecrate, consternate, desuetude, detractor, dissolute, divisive, emaciated, enamored, ensconce, garishly and 76 more...
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Occult / Religious
evangelism, exorcism, fideism, Gnosticism, Hasidism, Hebraism, henotheism, hylotheism, idolism, indifferentism, infralapsarianism, ipsedixitism and 107 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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magik
magic, wizardry, scorcery, necronomicon, ensorcelled, cantrip, pentagram, shaman, numerology, tarot, séance, oracle and 30 more...
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otherworldly
voodoo, ouija, shaman, superstitious, séance, gris-gris, incantation, pentagram, solomon's knot, baron sunday, poltergeist, premonition and 41 more...
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Trunkjunk
Crap in my backpack; the lab.
* self-reminder: simpler spelling, oldest english words, bahuvrihi words?, anchor-ideas, dbrwntrix
* surviva-list: locavore, cowpooling, occupatile...séance, thysiastery, thurible, simpler spelling, invocation, oldest english words, occupatile, vow, sacrifice, micropause, commentariat, cowpooling and 14 more...
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Unsolved Mysteries
dobby, doppelgänger, fetch, larva, poltergeist, apport, revenant, spook, taisch, second sight, wraith, hag-ridden and 17 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 121
be up, conduct, séance, Liberace, snowcap, devil dog, ho-ho, fruit cocktail, syrup, consistant, guilty, guilt and 70 more...
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mixtape
first shot at a wordie list.
séance, dollop, bantam, mixtape, moss, knifepoint, melodica, albatross, salamander
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hitchens
Tweets
Looking for tweets for séance.

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