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telepathy Psychics.|tɪ-, tɛˈlɛpəθɪ, ˈtɛlɪpæθɪ| [f. tele- + Gr. -πάθεια feeling, perception: see -pathy.] ‘The communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense’ (Myers Human Personality, Gloss.).
1882Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research I. ii. 147 We venture to introduce the words Telæsthesia and Telepathy to cover all cases of impression received at a distance without the normal operation of the recognised sense organs. 1888Athenæum 18 Aug. 213/3 In..after-dinner experiments..telepathy, thought-reading, and hypnotism are trifled with as amusements. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 234 Telepathy is theoretically the next stage in the Evolution of Language. So telepath |ˈtɛlɪpæθ| n., teˈlepathist, an adept in, subject of, or believer in telepathy; ˈtelepath v., (a) trans. to convey or transmit by means of telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy; telepaˈthetic (rare), teleˈpathic adjs., pertaining to, of the nature of, or effected by telepathy; teleˈpathically adv., in a telepathic manner, by means of telepathy; telepathize |ˈtɛlɪpəθaɪz, tɪˈlɛpəθaɪz| v., (a) trans. to communicate with or affect (a person) by telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy; (c) trans., to discern by means of telepathy. rare.
1907Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 3/2 There is a pleasant mystery about the origin of the 9-in. shell which startled Selsey the other day... It looks as though the *telepaths would have to be called in to account for its origin.
1886Sat. Rev. 4 Dec. 751/1 Whether spooks are *telepathed about..by promiscuous persons, or whether the Thibetan Adepts go spooking astrally through the world. 1891Review of Rev. 15 Oct. 347/2 As soon as a man begins to speculate as to how he telepaths, he loses the power of telepathing. 1895Edin. Rev. Jan. 93 It may be that these communications have really been ‘telepathed’ from some living mind.
1892Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 157/1 Was there, then, some ‘communication’ of a ‘*telepathetic’ sort? 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook ix. 119 The functional interactions of hypnotic and telepathetic rapports.
1884Gurney & Myers in 19th Century May 800 We hope to show that the lowest *telepathic manifestations may be used to explain and corroborate the highest. 1903Myers Human Personality II. p. xv, Telepathic intercourse, if carried far enough, corresponds to possession or to ecstasy.
1884― in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research vii. 219 Drawing a picture which he feels to be *telepathically presented to his mind's eye. 1886Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living I. 111 His aspect..is telepathically perceived.
1894Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 3/3 Knowing myself now to be a *telepathist,..I look with regret to the many opportunities I have missed. 1900Pall Mall G. 31 Oct. 3 Mr. Andrew Lang discourses..of three female professors of telepathy, concluding that Joan of Arc was a true telepathist.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1919E. H. Jones Road to En-dor xi. 115 He had put me on parole..not to telepathize with the good folk of Yozgad. 1941Mind L. 315 But this just is telepathy except that you have made the provision that it shall be done by having the same sensation as the person one telepathises. 1954‘J. Christopher’ 22nd Cent. 145 Did they telepathize our coming and retreat to some more civilized solar system? 1963Jrnl. Soc. for Psychical Res. XLII. 33, I have examined a subject telepathized in this way and questioned him. 1980R. L. C. Fitz Gibbon Rat Report ii. 38 If the rat had telepathized once, then perhaps it would again. |