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Arthur Conan Doyle, the Spiritualist

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, remembered for creating the staunchly rational Sherlock Holmes, was also a devoted spiritualist.

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Word Tutor: coterie

IN BRIEF: A small group of people with a shared interest.

A very small coterie formed within the science club because only a few of the students were interested specifically in genetics.

[French, from Old French, peasant association, from cotier, cottager, from *cote, cottage, possibly of Germanic origin.]

Literary Dictionary: coterie

coterie [koh‐tĕ‐ri], a small group of writers (and others) bound together more by friendship and habitual association than by a common literary cause or style that might unite a school or movement. The term often has pejorative connotations of exclusive cliquishness. The Bloomsbury group is one well‐known example. See also cénacle, salon.

━━ n. 同好グループ, 仲間, 連中, 一派.

The same is true of the French business establishment. A close-knit brotherhood — it’s nearly all male — that shares school ties, board memberships and rituals like hunting and wine-tasting, the French business elite is a surprisingly small coterie in a nation of more than 60 million people.

cenacle

ˈsɛnək(ə)l/

noun

1. 1.

   formal

   a group of people such as a discussion group or literary clique.
2. 2.

   the room in which the Last Supper was held.

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Cénacle is the name given to a Parisian literary group of varying constituency that began about 1826 to gather around Charles Nodier. The group sought to ...

cot

n.

1. A small house.
2. A protective covering or sheath.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

cote

n.

A small shed or shelter for sheep or birds.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

cote² (kōt)
tr.v. Obsolete., cot·ed, cot·ing, cotes.
To go around by the side of; skirt.

[Probably from French côtoyer, to skirt, from côté, side, from Old French coste, rib. See costrel.]

ritual

Pronunciation: /ˈrɪtʃʊəl/

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noun

• a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order:ancient fertility rituals [mass noun]:the role of ritual in religion
• a prescribed order for performing a ritual ceremony, especially one characteristic of a particular religion or Church: she likes the High Church ritual
• a series of actions or type of behaviour regularly and invariably followed by someone:her visits to Joy became a ritual

adjective

[attributive]

• relating to or done as a religious or solemn rite:ritual burial a ritual murder
• (of an action) arising from convention or habit:the players gathered for the ritual pre-match huddle

Derivatives

ritually

adverb

Origin:

late 16th century (as an adjective): from Latin ritualis, from ritus (see rite)

as·cet·ic (ə-sĕt'ĭk)
n.
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.

adj.

1. Leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. See synonyms at severe.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; self-denying and austere: an ascetic existence.

[Late Greek askētikos, from Greek askētēs, practitioner, hermit, monk, from askein, to work.]

ascetically as·cet'i·cal·ly adv.

[名]

1 行者(ぎょうじゃ)； （初期キリスト教会の）修道士.

2 （一般に）禁欲主義者.

━━[形]((通例限定))

1 禁欲主義の, 苦行の

ascetic practices
苦 行.

2 〈生活・態度が〉禁欲的な.

［ギリシャ語askētes（修験者）］
n.

1. The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.
2. The doctrine that the ascetic life releases the soul from bondage to the body and permits union with the divine.

asceticism

きんよく-しゅぎ 【禁欲主義】

• 感性的欲望を制し、理性や信仰による生活に価値をおく態度ないし立場。キリスト教の伝統で重要なアスケーシスの訳語。その積極的意味を評して修徳 主義と訳すこともある。

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spiritualism

Pronunciation: /ˈspɪrɪtʃʊəlɪz(ə)m, -tjʊəl-/

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noun

[mass noun]

• 1a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums.

• 2 Philosophy the doctrine that the spirit exists as distinct from matter, or that spirit is the only reality.

Derivatives

spiritualist
noun

1. 心霊術者；心霊主義者.
2. 2精神主義者.
3. 3唯心論者.

spiritualistic

Pronunciation: /-ˈlɪstɪk/

adjective