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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Psychic  \Psy"chic\,  Psychical  \Psy"chic*al\,  a.  [L.  psychicus, 
  Gr  ?,  fr  psychh`  the  soul,  mind;  cf  ?  to  blow:  cf  F. 
  psychique.] 
  1.  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  human  soul,  or  to  the  living 
  principle  in  man. 
 
  Note:  This  term  was  formerly  used  to  express  the  same  idea  as 
  psychological.  Recent  metaphysicians,  however,  have 
  employed  it  to  mark  the  difference  between  psychh`  the 
  living  principle  in  man,  and  pney^ma  the  rational  or 
  spiritual  part  of  his  nature.  In  this  use  the  word 
  describes  the  human  soul  in  its  relation  to  sense 
  appetite,  and  the  outer  visible  world,  as  distinguished 
  from  spiritual  or  rational  faculties,  which  have  to  do 
  with  the  supersensible  world.  --Heyse. 
 
  2.  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  mind,  or  its  functions  and 
  diseases;  mental;  --  contrasted  with  physical. 
 
  {Psychical  blindness},  {Psychical  deafness}  (Med.),  forms  of 
  nervous  disease  in  which  while  the  senses  of  sight  and 
  hearing  remain  unimpaired,  the  mind  fails  to  appreciate 
  the  significance  of  the  sounds  heard  or  the  images  seen. 
 
 
  {Psychical  contagion},  the  transference  of  disease, 
  especially  of  a  functional  nervous  disease,  by  mere  force 
  of  example. 
 
  {Psychical  medicine},  that  department  of  medicine  which 
  treats  of  mental  diseases. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  psychical 
  adj  1:  affecting  or  influenced  by  the  human  mind;  "psychic  energy"; 
  "psychic  trauma"  [syn:  {psychic}] 
  2:  pertaining  to  forces  or  mental  processes  outside  the 
  possibilities  defined  by  natural  or  scientific  laws; 
  "psychic  reader";  "psychical  research"  [syn:  {psychic}] 
  3:  outside  the  sphere  of  physical  science;  "psychic  phenomena" 
  [syn:  {psychic}]




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