0 someone who believes that living people can communicate with people who have died, especially someone who helps other people communicate with their dead family members:
1 believing that living people can communicate with people who have died, or relating to this belief:
She tried to contact her dead sister though mediums and spiritualists.
The business of keeping in touch with the dead is generally left to spiritualists and mediums.
Their work appears to be the product of dramatic empathy, rather like that of spiritualists calling up the dead.
A few days after his death, a spiritualist meeting was arranged for him to make an appearance from beyond the grave.
He was prominent in the spiritualist movement, often attending seances.
Even within the spiritualist community the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice.
A third feature of significance to spiritualists concerns the affective nature of what went on within seances themselves.
