Psychical

Word PSYCHICAL
Character 9
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Pronunciations /ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/

Definitions and meanings of "Psychical"

What do we mean by psychical?

Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic.

Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.

Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.

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The word "psychical" in example sentences

They employ the term psychical to indicate the relation of the human soul to sense, appetite, propensity, etc., and psychological, as indicating the ultimates of spiritual being. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

It is rather in what we call psychical vision that the poet is wont to excel, that is, in his ability to perceive the meaning of visual phenomena. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

Some of these changes are beyond restitution; some can be brought back to a well-working structure by strictly physical agencies like drugs or electricity; others can be repaired by physiological stimuli which reach directly the higher brain cells through the sense organs and which we call psychical under one aspect, but which certainly remain physiological influences from another aspect. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

One can say that this (over -) emphasis stems from her identity as a writer, where literature would play a more decisive role than usual in psychical and material realities, but it should not be reduced to this fact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The precise formulation is instructive for the ways that it connects the issue of un/mourning to the place of literature in psychical reality. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Later Miss Lord became deeply interested in psychical researches, and I could get no more work out of her. ❋ Unknown (1898)

In this manner we use the word psychical as describing the relationship of the soul to animal experiences and being, and psychological as referring to the spiritual potencies of the soul. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

Footnote 4: In the use of the terms psychical and psychological, we have observed the distinction which metaphysicians have recently made. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

And when I ask my students or any group, ` Have you ever had a psychical experience, 'no matter how educated, no matter how intellectual and -- the overwhelming answer is, ` Yes, I've had an experience that I would call a psychical experience.' ❋ Unknown (1998)

Long before the word “parapsychology” came into use, something called psychical research investigated communication between living human beings and departed spirits—usually, but not always, their friends or loved ones. ❋ Mortimer J. Adler (1982)

All of this revival recalls the psychical features of twelfth-century Eu rope. ❋ DENIS DE ROUGEMONT (1968)

The lack of interest in so-called psychical matters is somewhat surprising. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

Indeed, the physiological aspects of psychology, the investigations of the relation of adolescence to conversion, suggest that the distinction between the physical and the psychical is a vanishing distinction. ❋ Edward Caldwell Moore (1900)

_Makrobiotik_ terms psychical onanism, viz., the imaginative contemplation of a train of lascivious and voluptuous ideas. ❋ Albert Moll (1900)

To this class belong the less important magicians and witches; and even some good Christians possess such powers (which we now call psychical) which, generally speaking, they are at a loss to understand. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

When such conditions are pointed out, and then only, we have a case of what has been called psychical inhibition; and we are justified in calling it inhibition because these are precisely the conditions under which physiological inhibition may properly be inferred. ❋ Various (1889)

I shall now glance at what may more properly be called the psychical characteristics of the Florida Indians. ❋ Clay MacCauley (1884)

Like a lecturer making his first appearance before the public, he saw everything that was before his eyes, but apparently only had a dim understanding of it (among physiologists this condition, when the subject sees but does not understand, is called psychical blindness). ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

Why Nella and her kind, to this day, use the number four in contempt, rather than three or five, is a mystery of what one might call the psychical side of the Italian language. ❋ Unknown (1881)

He never wrote a good fugue, and his counterpoint was indifferent; but on the other hand he had several qualities which Mozart had not, and in particular a very curious and interesting mental phenomenon, which we might call psychical resonance or clairvoyance. ❋ Unknown (1874)

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