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Pertain vs Spiritistic - What's the difference?

pertain | spiritistic |

As a verb pertain

is to belong.

As an adjective spiritistic is

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

pertain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to belong
  • to relate, to refer, be relevant to

    • Usage notes

    * In all the above senses, pertain' is followed by '''to''' (or formerly by '''unto''', as in ''The King James Version of The Bible'' and in the plays of Shakespeare, although ' to is used in these works as well).

    Quotations

    (relate ): * 1989 , Sort out any booklets or manuals that pertain to the heating system or any other fixture that you are leaving behind. — One's company , Underwood, Lynn, Southampton: Ashford.

    Synonyms

    * appertain

    Antonyms

    * be irrelevant

    Anagrams

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    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