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familiar spirit

noun

Definition of familiar spirit

  1. 1 :  a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual

  2. 2 :  the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy

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Examples of familiar spirit in a Sentence

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

First Known Use of familiar spirit

circa 1545

familiar spirit Synonyms

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
Related Words
angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn also djinni or djinn), shaitan; double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch; lemures, manes; incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi); cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

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