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sé·ance AHD[sāʹäns', -ä’s'] D.J.[ˈseɪˌɑːns, -ˌɑːŋs]K.K.[ˈseˌɑns, -ˌɑŋs]n.（名词）- A meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages.降神会：人们接受精神圣谕的聚会
- A meeting, session, or sitting, as of a learned or legislative body.集会：学者或立法团体的会议、聚会或开会
- French [a sitting] 法语 [一次会]
- from Old French seoir [to sit] 源自 古法语 seoir [坐下]
- from Latin sedēre * see sed- 源自 拉丁语 sedēre * 参见 sed-
注释- A gathering in which phenomena such as levitation, telepathy, and communication with the dead take placeshould seemingly have little in common with a session of an administrative body of a learned society,but the wordséance can refer to both. Séance does not have the mysterious and exciting background one might expect for such a word but rather comes from French séance, "seat, session,” from Old Frenchseoir, "to sit.” In French as in English the word came to be used specifically for a meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages (a sense first recorded in English in 1845),but earlier in French and English the word had been used for meetings more generally.Certainly the second recorded use of the word in English in 1803 hardly seems to refer to an exciting spiritualistic meeting:"your séances . . . which I have a shrewd suspicion must be something dull.”发生如飘浮、心灵感应、与死人对话等现象的聚会，表面上应该与行政机构或学术团体的聚会没有什么共同之处，但是单词seance 可以兼指二者。 Seance 没有人们所期望的神秘的或令人兴奋的背景，而不过是来自法语词 seance （“座位，开会，”）， 它来自古法语词seoir （“坐”）。 和在英语中一样，此词在法语中被用来特指人们接受神谕的聚会(这种意思于1845年被首次用英语记录下来），但在更早时在法语和英语中这个词更常用于指聚会或会议。这个词1803年在英语中的第二次记录似乎不是指一次令人兴奋的精神聚会：“你们的聚会…我怀疑一定是非常沉闷乏味的”
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