séance
noun
sé·ance
| \ ˈsā-ˌän(t)s
, -ˌäⁿs, sā-ˈ\
, -ˌäⁿs, sā-ˈ\
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Her mother and fellow Imagineer, Leota Toombs, is the face inside the floating crystal ball in Madame Leota’s seance room. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Last ‘Haunted Mansion’ designer looks back on spooky Disney ride’s 50th anniversary," 9 Aug. 2019 Hollywood friends told of seeing her at seance-type sessions, meditating Indian philosophies with Mia Farrow and others. — Los Angeles Times, "From the Archives: ‘Ritualistic Slayings’: Sharon Tate, Four Others Murdered," 28 July 2019 The early 20th century craze for seances and mediums today seems laughably naive. — Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com, "Behind the magic of Harry Houdini at the Jewish Museum of Maryland," 29 June 2018 Cliff began holding seances at the house, and a psychic told him spirits were inhabiting Villa Paula. — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, "Miami's Most Haunted House Is for Sale for Nearly $5 Million," 13 June 2018 The idea is to create a spiritual environment, almost like a seance, and invite us into the inner workings of Brodsky’s mind. — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, "Baryshnikov dancing at the Harris? No, 'Brodsky' is something different," 30 Jan. 2018 There’s a murder, there’s a strange figure in the woods who leaves cryptic clues in a mailbox nailed to a tree, Paquin’s daughter holds a seance and cuts herself to obtain the blood necessary to contact the other side. — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, "On TV, Jan. 23: Goodie ‘Baskets,’ ‘Bellevue’ belly laughs," 24 Jan. 2018 Hollywood friends told of seeing her at seance-type sessions, meditating Indian philosophies with Mia Farrow and others. — Los Angeles Times, "From the Archives: ‘Ritualistic Slayings’: Sharon Tate, Four Others Murdered," 28 July 2019 Interested in philosophy and spiritualism, af Klint was part of de Fem (The Five), a group of women artists who conducted seances and experimented with automatic drawings long before Surrealists began their automatic writing projects. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Abstract Painter Hilma af Klint Inspires a Collaborative Capsule Collection for the Guggenheim Museum Store," 13 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'séance.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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séance
noun
English Language Learners Definition of séance
: a meeting where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people
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