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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/

形容詞

psychical (not comparable)

1. Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 85:

     Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "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.

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 8:

     "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. (theology) Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit. [from 18th c.]
3. Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic. [from 19th c.]

反意語

• physical

派生語

関連する語

• psychic
• psychological