perispirit

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From peri- +‎ spirit.

In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), the term is defined with a direct analogy to perisperm (“layer of nutritive tissue that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms”).

Noun

perispirit (countable and uncountable, plural perispirits)

  1. A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said by spiritualists to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body.

Derived terms

Translations

bond between spirit and body

See also

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