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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
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Synonyms for 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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The first known use of familiar spirit was circa 1545
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