seance
- noun
- /seɪˈɑːns/
- Every Friday night, they would host a seance to attempt to reach the spirits using a medium.
- hold a seance
- go to a seance
I've done loads of fake seances, which is so much fun.
- I've done loads of fake seances, which is so much fun.
- I think we should all hold hands and have a seance currently.
- I think they should hold a seance and they should channel the spirit of Paul Volcker.
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Da Vinci, both of them where I mean, they had, they had seance and in one room, they had damn spirits coming out of the back.
- So one of the most convincing historical records of a seance being held in the Lincoln White House appeared in the Boston Gazette.
- Her Mama was like a Scabble, and she did like fake seances and the little girls learned how to do Ouija board.
- She had fabricated this whole story about this stuff and she actually gets to the point where she gets the neighbors to come in one night and has a seance.
- Is odd that he hated it because Wallace himself got quite mystical in late later in life and became a devotee of spiritual seances.
- That's right, we're not talking about some weird mind voodoo from your crazy neighbor or some seance or Seance or whatever.
- But like you'll see like the the seances, the like the anarchy type shit, the Ouija board stuff, the exercise.
Examples
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Start the seance.
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She had a group of people who held seances with her every Sunday for many years.
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Honey, that seance was my warning.
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- Hey, how was your seance?
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Well, do you remember our last seance in the cemetery?
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I think they should hold a seance and they should channel the spirit of Paul Volcker.
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But then ever since we did that seance, she's been acting very, very strange.
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Well... if you're interested, we do a candlelight seance at eight o'clock.
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"Is he conducting free seances?" I smiled at her again, but this time a little guardedly.
Fiction book (1995) -
The phenomenon you so rightly observed was the byproduct of a seance the four of us, along with your Professor Broom, were involved in just before the war.
Synonyms
A time when people sit together for a task like a photo or meeting
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word seance comes from the French séance, which means 'sitting' or 'session' and comes from a verb meaning 'to sit'. So a seance is a 'sitting' with a medium, a meeting where people try to communicate with the spirits of the dead.