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metagnomy Psychics.|mɛˈtægnəmɪ|
[ad. F. métagnomie (Boirac, 1917), f. meta- + Gr. γνώµη thought.]
The acquisition of information by supernormal means; divination. So ˈmetagnome, one who has the power of metagnomy; a medium; metagˈnomic a., of or pertaining to metagnomy.
1919W. de Kerlor tr. Boirac's Psychol. of Future xi. 232 Clairvoyance, or ‘metagnomy’. Ibid. 256 It is especially in the somnambulistic state, natural or provoked, that metagnomic manifestations occur. Ibid. 257 The mesmerist or hypnotist..evokes the metagnomic faculty. 1933T. Besterman tr. Driesch's Psychical Res. i. i. 2 The subject of the investigation, the sensitive, the medium, the metagnome, or whatever one likes to call him. 1960New Scientist 28 July 306/2 Prosopopesis, metagnomy, telergy and teleplasty: if these are accepted, what remains of the ‘laws’ of physics, chemistry, biology and psychology? 1965Listener 29 Apr. 639/3 With the existence of such phenomena as telepathy, metagnomy, precognition, etc., now well established,..there is surely a possibility that some astrologers may be psychically gifted individuals. |