psychical

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21
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23
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9
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/(UK)

Definition of psychical

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
    “Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?”
    “Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility.”
    “"The physical body has rather been a source of pain and fatigue to us. It is the constant index of our limitations. Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.”
    “"Thus every form, every object, every external phenomenon," says Vignoli, "becomes vivified and animated by the intrinsic consciousness and personal psychical faculty of the animal itself.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.
    “Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?”
    “Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility.”
    “"The physical body has rather been a source of pain and fatigue to us. It is the constant index of our limitations. Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?" "If they can indeed be detached," Summerlee grumbled.”
    “"Thus every form, every object, every external phenomenon," says Vignoli, "becomes vivified and animated by the intrinsic consciousness and personal psychical faculty of the animal itself.”
  2. (not-comparable)Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
  3. (not-comparable)Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, psyche + -ical.

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