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radionic, n. and a.|reɪdɪˈɒnɪk|
[f. radio- 2 + -onic, after electronic a.]
A. n. pl. (const. as sing.)
†1. U.S. Electronics, esp. those aspects of electronics connected with radio. Obs.
1943Radio News May 4/2 In its simplest form, radionics would be understood by we Americans as being an all-inclusive term of any equipment or science where the use of vacuum tubes is employed [sic]. 1943Proc. IRE XXXI. 192 He [sc. Hitler] was stopped because the RAF had gone him one better on the new weapon which had paced his early victories, the only new weapon this war has produced: Radionics.
2. The study and interpretation of radiation believed by some to be emitted by and to characterize living and other substances, and to be detectable by skilled use of various complicated electrical instruments.
1954Brit. Jrnl. Radiesthesia I. iii. 18 Radiesthesia..applied to the use of the pendulum, Radionics..applied to instrumental detection and use, and Dowsing, the use of the Divining Rod. 1960Times 21 June 5/4 The plaintiff alleged that the defendant is an exponent of and practitioner in the pseudo-science of radionics, and that..he fraudulently represented that there were associated with substances distinctive waves, vibrations or radiations capable of affecting a device..called a Delawarr Diagnostic Instrument. 1960Spectator 28 Oct. 653 The founder of what today is known as radionics was Dr. Albert Abrams (1863–1924), a..physician who came to believe that the basis of disease was atomic or electronic..and that disease could therefore be treated by giving healthy radiations to neutralise the unhealthy ones. 1969B. Copen Radionic Computer Handbk. 8 Radionics is the science of radiation detection which uses the extra sensory perception of the operator..and automatic instruments, of which this computer is but one. Modern Radionics is a combination of the older Radiesthesia (detection with pendulum) and the more modern semi-automatic instruments (Radionics). 1976T. Graves Dowsing xii. 124 Radionics, the specific form of medical dowsing which uses as its instrument a ‘box’ containing a number of dials in a particular sequence or pattern, seems to be a compound-word formed from ‘radiesthetic electronics’—so the word is another product of the tangle over the assumed physical basis of dowsing.
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to radionics (sense 1); electronic. orig. U.S.
Quot. 1963 represents an independent use not connected with the orig. use of radionics (sense A. 1 above).
1943Radio News May 75/1 Radio News will use ‘radionic’ in preference to ‘electronic’ wherever it is more descriptive. 1943Proc. IRE XXXI. 193 This one [sc. war], at the front, is run by radio and radionic devices. 1963Spectator 15 Nov. 616/3 Even in this radionic age, a Prime Minister cannot hope to make his way in the country without establishing his mastery over the House of Commons.
2. Of, pertaining to, or practising radionics (sense 2).
1947Radiesthesia III. 58 The development of a new technique in Radionic Diagnosis. 1969B. Copen Radionic Computer Handbk. 54 Any potency of the lower order may be chemically analysed, but the higher potencies are non-analytic in nature, by the orthodox system, but are by the Radionic system. 1972D. V. Tansley Radionics & Subtle Anat. of Man 7 Today, most if not all radionic practitioners would agree that it is their belief that man does have what is referred to as an etheric body. 1975Homes & Gardens Nov. 63/2 Sometimes a diagnostic box helps to make the diagnoses and may also broadcast the treatment. The instrument is not electrically powered but gains its energy from the patient's witness which is put into the box... The radiesthetist determines the diagnosis and then uses the radionic box to broadcast the selected rate of the remedy. |