a. [f. SPIRIT sb. + -ISTIC.] Of or pertaining to, dealing or concerned with, spiritism; = SPIRITUALISTIC a. 2.
1867. Eng. Leader, 15 June, 333/1. That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray … so many weak and impressionable minds.
1880. Howells, Undiscov. Country, iv. 70. The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.
1898. Pop. Sci. Monthly, LII. 493. New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.
