psychostaticadj.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈstatɪk/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈstædɪk/ rare.
Of or relating to psychostatics; (also) relating to or performing psychostasy.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Psychostatic,..pertaining to psychostatics.
1891 Mind 16 413 The psychostatic condition of the mother who is aroused from sleep by the slightest cry from her sick child.
1925 J. R. Hunt in C. Macfie Campbell et al. Probl. Personality xiii. 222 The idea of an action or of an attitude is dependent for its expression upon a psychokinetic or psychostatic representation.
1939 Art Bull. 21 328/2 The psychostatic angel in the Islamic Last Judgment is Gabriel.
1987 S. Central Rev. 4 72 A reading of Donne's poem is..enhanced when we approach it with an awareness of its visual and literary prototypes from the psychostatic tradition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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