| 单词 |
polypsychical |
| 释义 |
polypsychical, a. nonce-wd.|pɒlɪˈpsaɪkɪkəl|
[f. Gr. πολυ-, poly- + ψῡχή soul: cf. psychical.]
Having many souls, many-souled. So polyˈpsychic a. = prec.; polypsychism |-ˈpsaɪkɪz(ə)m|, (a) the belief in a multiplicity of souls in one person; (b) the belief in a multiplicity of spiritual beings as the causes of natural phenomena.
1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 206 The master [Wordsworth], indeed, was a prophet of humanity;..a poet of one large sufficient soul, but not polypsychical like a dramatist. 1856W. A. Butler Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 237 Even in the human frame itself there is found among savage nations the belief of a multiplicity of souls; the process leading to polypsychism being exactly the same as that which multiplies the directors or animators of the universe. 1903Myers Hum. Personality I. 34, I regard each man as at once profoundly unitary and almost infinitely composite.., polyzoic and perhaps polypsychic in an extreme degree. Ibid. I. Gloss. s.v. Polyzoism, Polypsychism is sometimes used to express the psychical aspect of polyzoism. |
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