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familiar spirit
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familiar spirit

noun

Definition of FAMILIAR SPIRIT

1
: a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual
2
: the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy

Examples of FAMILIAR SPIRIT

  1. <asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance>

First Known Use of FAMILIAR SPIRIT

1565

Related to FAMILIAR SPIRIT

Synonyms
apparition, bogey (also bogie or bogy), ghost, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

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