单词 | parapsychological |
释义 | parapsychologicaladj.ΚΠ 1887 Science 27 May 511/2 Add to this a painstaking forcing of all these botanical forms..and some notion of this para-psychological system will perhaps result. 2. Of or relating to parapsychology (parapsychology n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > parapsychology > [adjective] parapsychic1911 parapsychical1918 parapsychological1924 1924 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 27/2 Its inherent merit..renders the publication a noteworthy and welcome contribution to parapsychological literature. 1967 A. Wilson No Laughing Matter i. 12 Alas for the limits of our parapsychological knowledge. 1980 D. Brin Sundiver i. iii. 38 I was hired to perform psychological and parapsychological tests on the crew and environment on Mercury. 1999 Nature 30 July 413/2 The proportion of lapses in parapsychological studies is difficult to estimate. Derivatives parapsychoˈlogically adv. according to the tenets of parapsychology; in parapsychology. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > parapsychology > [adverb] parapsychologically1954 1954 M. Lowry Let. 10 May (1967) 369 You were so sporting as to write us parapsychologically suspecting some Lowry misery-grisery. 1977 Church Times 7 Apr. 6/1 They accept the reality of the ‘Easter experience’ understood psychologically, perhaps parapsychologically. 1996 Independent 12 Sept. ii. 30/3 Ghosts and telepathy were on the agenda from the start, with more modern phenomena such as spoon-bending added as they became parapsychologically fashionable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1887 |
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