Both Uses of
séance
in
Fahrenheit 451
- He shouted to give himself the necessary push away from this last house window, and the fascinating séance going on in there!†
p. 131.5 *
- He felt as if he had left the great séance and all the murmuring ghosts.†
p. 133.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(séance as in: medium conducted a séance) a meeting in which spiritualists attempt to communicate with the dead
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and more archaically) a séance is a session or meeting of a professional society.