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associate | spiritistic |

As a noun associate

is (slang) an associate's degree.

As an adjective spiritistic is

of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (); spiritualistic.

associate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
    • He is an associate editor.
  • Having partial status or privileges.
    • He is an associate member of the club.
  • Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  • (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
    • associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
  • A companion; a comrade.
  • One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
  • A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (associat)
  • (lb) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
  • (lb) To spend time socially; keep company.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
  • (lb) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
  • (lb) To connect or join together; combine.
  • :
  • (lb) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  • *(rfdate) (John Keats) (1795-1821)
  • *:I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
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  • To endorse.
  • *
  • (lb) To be associative.
  • To accompany; to keep company with.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.

    • Synonyms

    * join

    Antonyms

    * disassociate

    References

    * English heteronyms ----

    spiritistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (); spiritualistic.
  • * 1867 , England’s Leader ?, 15th June 1867 issue, page 333, column 1
    • That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray…so many weak and impressionable minds.
  • * 1880 , , The Undiscovered Country , chapter 4, page 70
    • The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.
  • * 1898 , , volume 52, page 493
    • New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.
  • * 1949 , , The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans (2nd ed.; Farrar, Straus), page 151
    • No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference.
  • * 1993 , , Varieties of Scientific Contextualism (Context Press; ISBN 1878978055, 9781878978059), page 36
    • All conventional philosophies assume the existence of a real world?—?a reality apart from knowers and their knowing?—?although not all indulge themselves in speculations concerning ontological matters. I make this claim even of the most spiritistic forms of idealism, in that to speak about the universe at all implies someone speaking and something spoken about?—?these two constituting the existent reality.

    References

    * “ spiri?tistic, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989