n. 1. A meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages. 2. A meeting, session, or sitting, as of a learned or legislative body. [French, a sitting, from Old French seoir, to sit, from Latin sedēre; see sed- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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