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单词 psychorrhagy
释义

psychorrhagyn.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ψυχορραγεῖν , -y suffix3.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ψυχορραγεῖν to let the soul break free ( < ψυχο- psycho- comb. form + ῥαγ- , stem of ῥηγνύναι to break, burst: see -rrhagia comb. form) + -y suffix3. Compare Byzantine Greek ψυχορραγία death struggle.Apparently coined by F. W. Myers (see quot. a1901 at main sense).
Spiritualism rare.
A breaking free of the soul or psyche from the body.
ΚΠ
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. vi. 263 I propose to use the Greek word ψυχορραγῶ..‘to let the soul break loose’, and from which I form the words psychorrhagy and psychorrhagic.
1926 W. W. Hall Observed Illuminates 191 Any Automatisms? e.g.,..Psychic (intuition, psychorrhagy, phantasmic presence).

Derivatives

psychorrhagic adj. rare of or relating to psychorrhagy.
ΚΠ
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) II. 75 Those phantasms of the living which I have already classed as psychorrhagic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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