2016年9月25日 星期日

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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
pronunciation

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

pronunciation 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.]

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.

Cénacle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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) pronunciation
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) pronunciation
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

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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
 

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