Crossword clues for psychic
psychic
- One with the ability hidden in nine puzzle answers
- Like a mind reader
- She shouldn't have to ask, "Do you want to have your fortune told?"
- Sensitive to the supernatural
- One may know you're solving a crossword right now
- One doing readings over the phone for $.99 a minute
- Mind reader with a 900 number
- Fortune-teller kin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychic \Psy"chic\, Psychical \Psy"chic*al\, a. [L. psychicus, Gr. ?, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. ? to blow: cf. F. psychique.]
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, "of or pertaining to the human soul" (earlier psychical, 1640s), from Greek psykhikos "of the soul, spirit, or mind" (opposed to somatikos), also (New Testament) "concerned with the life only, animal, natural," from psykhe "soul, mind, life" (see psyche). Meaning "characterized by psychic gifts" first recorded 1871.
"a medium;" 1870; see psychic (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to the abilities of a psychic. 2 Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general. n. 1 A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence. 2 A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium. 3 (context gnosticism English) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
WordNet
adj. pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; "psychic reader"; "psychical research" [syn: psychical]
affecting or influenced by the human mind; "psychic energy"; "psychic trauma" [syn: psychical]
outside the sphere of physical science; "psychic phenomena" [syn: psychical]
n. a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
Wikipedia
Psychic is the debut album by Darkside, featuring Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. It was released on October 4, 2013 on Matador Records.
A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses. The word "psychic" is also used as an adjective to describe such abilities. Psychics may be theatrical performers, such as stage magicians, who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot reading to produce the appearance of such abilities. Psychics appear regularly in fantasy fiction, such as in the novel The Dead Zone by Stephen King.
A large industry and network exists whereby psychics provide advice and counsel to clients. Some famous psychics include Courtney Davy (famous psychic detective with her partner in crime) Edgar Cayce, Ingo Swann, Peter Hurkos, Jose Ortiz El Samaritano, Miss Cleo, John Edward, and Sylvia Browne. Psychic powers are asserted by psychic detectives and in practices such as psychic archaeology and even psychic surgery.
Critics attribute psychic powers to intentional trickery or to self- delusion. In 1988 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences gave a report on the subject and concluded there is "no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years for the existence of parapsychological phenomena." A study attempted to repeat recently reported parapsychological experiments that appeared to support the existence of precognition. Attempts to repeat the results, which involved performance on a memory test to ascertain if post-test information would effect it, "failed to produce significant effects", and thus "do not support the existence of psychic ability," and is thus categorized as a pseudoscience.
Psychic is a 1992 Soviet Science fiction film directed by Gennadi Glagolev.
Usage examples of "psychic".
He noticed the older antidepressants like amitriptyline decreased psychic ability, while the newer serotonin reuptake inhibitors were either neutral or they enhanced it.
There is a higher level of psychic ability in autistics in comparison to the general population.
Beyond that, I have no knowledge of how my father managed to enhance psychic ability in the men.
It has been found, for example, that when given in massive doses some of the vitamins -- nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid for example -- sometimes produce a certain heightening of psychic energy.
The Spirit corresponds to the Atman, and the Soul to the psychic being.
Secondly, when it is awakened, the psychic being gives the Sadhaka the true Bhakti, devotion, for God or for the Guru.
It had been a psychic compulsion Ridgemont himself had planted after starving Cade for two weeks.
While his assistant performed the censing, the Master Sorcerer stood immobile over the body, a long wand of glittering crystal in each hand, his arms flung wide to provide the psychic umbrella which would protect the corpse from being affected by the magical ritual that John Quetzal was enacting.
To a man without the Talent, the psychic patterns wrought by the acts which had taken place within the room, and brought out by the censing process, would have been totally invisible.
When a sensitive person receives clairvoyance or clairaudience, or anyone has a psychic experience, the consciousness must be unoccupied by physical thought or sensation to permit its reception of the spirit experience.
Never mind that my psychic powers are limited, that the clairvoyant images and impressions they bring me are often vague or confusing, and that I have little-and frequently no-control over them.
My family knew that I was clairvoyant, and my premonitions and psychic insights were taken seriously.
I did not mention my ability to see the goblins but spoke only of my other psychic talents, specifically of my clairvoyant ability to sense oncoming danger.
Pregnant Katagaria were Daimon magnets due to the strength of their souls and the psychic powers their breed carried.
The links they had opened with the dextriers were suddenly full of psychic backwash.