| 单词 | the triumph of mind over matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe triumph (also supremacy, etc.) of mind over matter j. mind over matter: (esp. of the mind's curative effect on bodily illness) mental and psychical control over, or influence on, physical phenomena; (also) the supposed ability to manipulate physical objects by psychokinesis. Also the triumph (also supremacy, etc.) of mind over matter. Cf. sense 19h. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > psychokinesis mind over matter1808 telekinesis1890 psychokinesis1914 PK1943 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. vii. 95 He would have selected those two instances as the triumph of mind over matter. a1880 J. Brougham Capt. Cuttle (1884) iv. 15/2 There's wisdom!—there's a triumph of mind over matter. 1906 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Irish Yesterdays 89 The Mahatma maintained a Druid silence; it was not for him to comment on the eternal supremacy of Mind over Matter. 1943 Jrnl. Parapsychol. 7 20 The ‘psychokinetic’ or ‘PK’ effect..is colloquially called ‘mind over matter’, and means the direct influencing of a physical system by the action of a subject's effort, without any known intermediate energy or instrumentation. 1994 Daily Mirror 4 Oct. (TV Daily Suppl.) 4/6 Alternative methods of treatment involving mind over matter are investigated by medicine man Dr Rob Buckman. < as lemmas |
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