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Air, in ancient Greek medicine
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pneuma
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n. 1 (context music English) a neume 2 the spirit or soul 3 (context Gnosticism English) one of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul
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Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies is a refereed theological journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies . Numbers of the article relate to the special interest groups of the SPS in particular: biblical studies, history, theology, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
used in English in various sense, from Greek pneuma "a blowing, a wind, blast; breeze; influence; breathed air, breath; odor, scent; spirit of a person; inspiration, a spirit, ghost," from pnein "to blow, to breathe," from PIE root *pneu- "to breathe," ...
Usage examples of pneuma.
With the cruel detachment of a cat with a mouse, the pneuma began disabling him bit by bit, striking almost at will at the brachial, solar plexus, carotid sinus, and larynx.
He'd spent many lazy Yzordderrexian evenings on the roof of Peccable's house, watching the tail of the comet disappear behind the towers of the Autarch's palace, talking about the theory and practice of Imajical feits, writs, pneumas, uredos, and the rest.
Though it had no discernible features, it looked tender, and his hand had sufficient echo of the pneumas it had discharged to do harm.
It wasn't a skill with feits and sways, nor was it pneumas, nor resurrections, nor the driving out of demons.
I did find a passage in Arnold of Villanova, an author I had heard William mention with great esteem, who had it that lovesickness was born from an excess of humors and pneuma, when the human organism finds itself in an excess of dampness and heat, because the blood (which produces the generative seed), increasing through excess, produces excess of seed, a “complexio venerea,” and an intense desire for union in man and woman.