ectoplasmic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
He expires in the opening scene, apparently frightened into a heart attack by ectoplasmic spirits.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021
At first glance, the movie seemed to peddle the classic, gooey tale of ectoplasmic underdogs.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
A profile of the judge Richard Posner described him as having “the distant, omniscient, ectoplasmic air of the butler in a haunted house”.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2015
This view is supported by the fact that certain coelomic forms, like Diplodina and others, which either lack muscle-fibrils or else show no ectoplasmic differentiation at all, are non-motile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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