clairvoyante
adjEtymology From French clairvoyante.
- In her sleep-waking state, she could distinguish the magnetic passes that I had made over a glass of water, they appearing darker than the water itself; and when she was very clairvoyante, she could by this means tell me how many passes I had made, and did so always correctly. […] 4th, The sleep-waking state, when she was clairvoyante, and prescribed. […] In the perfect sleep-waking state, the spirit had the supremacy; and, when she was perfectly clairvoyante, she said her thoughts proceeded wholly from the spirit, and the epigastric region.1845, Justinus Kerner, translated by [Catherine] Crowe, The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit, London: J. C. Moore, […], pages 65 and 108:
- The clairvoyante lady was asked about it, and confessing inability to answer, Mr. Eagle suggested that the gentleman should confide to him what he had written on the paper.1851 July, Z., “A Trickster Tricked”, in Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet. […], volume II, London: […] George Churchill, […], published 6 September 1851, page 242, column 2:
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- “[…] Strathmore, am I, who read you so well while you were yet unknown, likely to believe in your suave words so quickly? Remember! I am clairvoyante. I know the sincerity of every one who approaches me, and I know the worth of your words, my diplomatist! I shall be a very long time before I accord to you the honour of any belief in them.” / “If you be clairvoyante, you will no longer disbelieve; you will see without words what your sorcery works. You must know your own power too well to doubt it!”1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “The Charm of the Rose”, in Strathmore: A Romance […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 237–238:
- A clairvoyante lady gave Jane a prescription, and assured her if she took it, and followed her advice, she would be cured, impiously adding that the Almighty himself could not have prescribed so well for her as she had done.1867, John Ashburner, Notes and Studies in the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and Spiritualism. With Observations upon Catarrh, Bronchitis, Rheumatism, Gout, Scrofula, and Cognate Diseases., London: H. Baillière, […], page 260:
- He had also sent a lock of his hair to a sprightly and intelligent French lady, a Mademoiselle de Cramponaye, who had thereupon written him a prescription, and whom he had afterwards visited at her residence on the ‘other side’ of Oxford Street, where, a younger sister having performed over her some mesmeric passes, she became clairvoyante, and in her turn mesmerised the blind man, though it was permissible during the séance to converse upon subjects less mysterious.1881, Violet Fane [pseudonym; Mary Montgomerie Currie], Sophy, or The Adventures of a Savage, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 147:
- She became clairvoyante, had prophetic dreams and visions, and prescribed for herself when in the trance-state.1883 November 10, “Review. Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation. I.—Dr. Justinus Kerner.”, in Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, volume III, number 149, page 492, column 2: