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connect | spiritistic |

As a verb connect

is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

As an adjective spiritistic is

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

connect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
  • (of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
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  • (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
  • To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
  • To associate.
  • To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

    • Antonyms

    * disconnect

    Related terms

    * connection * connector * connexion

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    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