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psychedelic, a. and n.|saɪkɪˈdɛlɪk, -ˈdiːlɪk|
Also occas. psychodelic.
[Irreg. f. Gr. ψυχή (see psyche) + δηλ-οῦν to make manifest, reveal (f. δῆλος manifest, visible) + -ic.
Proposed by H. Osmond in a letter to Aldous Huxley early in 1956: see G. Smith Lett. of Aldous Huxley (1969) 795.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of a drug: producing an expansion of consciousness through greater awareness of the senses and emotional feelings and the revealing of unconscious motivations (freq. symbolically); usu., = psychotomimetic a.
1957H. Osmond in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. LXVI. 429, I have tried to find an appropriate name for the agents under discussion: a name that will include the concepts of enriching the mind and enlarging the vision... My choice, because it is clear, euphonious, and uncontaminated by other associations, is psychedelic, mind-manifesting. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Nov. 665/3 He is so far from condemning the use of psychedelic drugs as to believe that, if wisely directed, they may help to open closed minds to dimensions of experience which would otherwise remain closed to them. 1965Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Jan. 104/1 The use of hallucinogenic (psychotomimetic, dysleptic, psychedelic) substances to produce altered states of consciousness is not new. 1965Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. XVI. 150 The popular issue of consciousness-expanding, or psychodelic drugs. 1967New Statesman 3 Feb. 154/3 Mr. Andrews stands for many poets..who are trying to reach beyond ordinary experience, in his case through the ‘mental voyages’ of psychedelic drugs. ‘This LSD is pure hero food.’ 1970R. C. Zaehner Concordant Discord iii. 42 If psychedelic drugs attest the existence of a timeless heaven, they none the less point to the existence of a timeless hell. 1970H. Perry Human Be-In 111 The core society's preoccupation with psychedelic drugs has been a way of avoiding their real hang-up: the attack of the young on middle-class values, particularly status and property. 1974Howard Jrnl. XIV. 99 He compares religious experience to the chemical experience induced by psychedelic drugs. 1975Brimblecombe & Pinder Hallucinogenic Agents i. 4 The psychedelic drug is said to enrich the mind, to enlarge the vision, and to create a mystic insight, but the term has achieved its maximum use and notoriety in the lay rather than the scientific literature.
b. Of, pertaining to, or produced by such a drug.
1963(title of periodical) The psychedelic review. 1965G. Cummins Swan on Black Sea 116 He said that yours was possibly a psychedelic condition. 1966New Statesman 16 Sept. 387/1 LSD-takers, or acidheads, look upon Aldous Huxley as a sort of John the Baptist... Huxley baptised with mescalin, but now there is this larger psychedelic vision. 1967Punch 22 Feb. 280/1 How..would one set about ‘integrating LSD into the fabric of American society’, as one sober supporter of the psychedelic experience suggested? 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 172 The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.
c. Concerned with or characterized by the use of such drugs.
1966New Statesman 4 Mar. 305/2 The work done by the ‘psychedelic’ specialists Timothy Leary, R. Alpert and R. Metzner in the United States has explored the possibilities of expanding awareness by the use of hallucinogenic drugs, in particular LSD-25. 1967Times 3 July 7/4 Since the drug aspect of the psychedelic cult attracted a great deal of unfavourable publicity and a number of unsavoury hangers-on, Dr. Timothy Leary..was asked to resign his appointment as Professor of Clinical Psychology at Harvard Medical School. 1967Los Angeles Free Press 10 Nov. 8/3 If you want a big picture of Brando on his bike, why travel to a psychedelic shop when you can get it at the drug store. 1967Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXXIII. 1202/1 The rationale of psychedelic therapy with alcoholic patients is focused on the alienation-breaking potential of ‘peak’ or psychedelic experiences induced with the aid of LSD. 1972M. D. de Rios Visionary Vine ii. 26 While some societies such as those in Peru have thousands of years of psychedelic tradition behind them, advanced industrial societies often find themselves in deep trouble as segments of their society are suddenly discovering the use of powerful mind-altering substances. 1976New Musical Express 31 July 8/2 This obsession with the bizarrity came out of the psychedelic '60s.
2. Producing an effect or sensation held to resemble that produced by a psychedelic drug; spec. having vivid colours, often in bold abstract designs or in motion.
1965Los Angeles Free Press 5 Nov. 4/1 (Advt.), The record stores won't sell and the radio banned..The Psychedelic Sound of ‘The Trip’ (original version). 1966Life Sept. 61/1 The world of art is ‘turning on’. It is getting hooked on psychedelic art. 1966Melody Maker 12 Nov. 9/1 Bobby Darin..has come back after years of absence..right in the middle of psychedelic pop, freak-outs and happenings. 1967Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Feb. 1/4 Psychedelic fabrics are becoming the rage. 1967Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 19 Dupont showed its spring news in the new Royal Lancaster, where a batch of whirling lights and psychedelic patterns enlivened the theatre. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 23/4 ‘Topless’ dancers gyrating in the glow of psychedelic slides and lights. 1968Southerly XXVIII. 279 He is wearing his psychedelic union jack trousers and tee-shirt. 1969Observer 12 Jan. 8/3 The very latest psychedelic colours, electric purples and greens. 1971Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 71/1 A discotheque with a psychedelic lighting display making you virtually blind. 1973C. & R. Milner Black Players v. 139 He drives a secondhand Volkswagen van, which had been gaily painted in psychedelic designs by its previous owners. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn ii. 22 He..proceeded to check the items in his shopping-bag—a ‘psychedelic’ plastic carrier, patterned in vivid colours, hinting at some unexpected aspect of his character.
B. n.
1. A psychedelic drug.
1956H. Osmond Let. in G. Smith Lett. Aldous Huxley (1969) 795 To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic (Delos to manifest). 1957― in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. LXVI. 429 The psychedelics help us to explore and fathom our own nature. 1959R. C. Johnson Watcher on Hills x. 162 Experience under the psychedelics may have an important contribution to make to Art. 1965A. Huxley Let. 22 July (1969) 803 As you say in your letter, we still know very little about the psychodelics. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xvii. 318 Drugs in this same category are also termed hallucinogens, psychedelics, psychotogens, psychodysleptics, and so forth. 1977Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 27) 880/2 The group of drugs termed variously psychodysleptics, psychotomimetics, in some cases psychodelics, or, more usually but often inappropriately, hallucinogens are substances which as their principal action provoke abnormal mental changes, particularly in cognitive and perceptual spheres. 1977Rolling Stone 16 June 24/3 Ergot also contains a powerful psychedelic: lysergic acid amide, a close relative of LSD, with about ten percent of that drug's mind-altering potency.
2. A person who takes a psychedelic drug or has a psychedelic life-style.
1966Time 11 Mar. 43 Such dangers do not deter the acid heads or ‘psychedelics’—even though some users are willing to admit that they found no great ‘show’, or had a ‘freak trip’ (a bad one) or ‘tripped out’ (the worst kind). 1967Economist 17 June 1240/1 The East Village has supplanted Greenwich Village as a new meeting ground for poets, beats, psychedelics and plain old-fashioned bohemians.
Hence psycheˈdelically adv., in psychedelic colours; also various nonce-wds., as ˈpsychedel, psychedeliac |-ˈdiːlɪæk| = psychedelic n. 2; ˌpsychedelicaˈtessen, a shop selling psychedelic articles.
1966Life 9 Sept. 68/3 True ‘acid rock’ goes deeper psychedelically than just lyrics. 1967Times 24 Feb. 55 In Los Angeles, the leading psychedelicatessen is the Headquarters. 1967Listener 24 Aug. 252/1 Those bells which announce the approach of psychedels like medieval lepers. 1970V. Canning Great Affair xvi. 300 Troops..wearing combat helmets—some psychedelically painted. 1975Time Out 9 May 55 Zig Zag badges are optional but retired psychedeliacs requesting ‘Andmoreagain’ are asking for disappointment and maybe even a bunch of fives. 1976Homes & Gardens July 39/1 The front door of their old rectory is painted psychedelically and Shirley opens it wearing a comfortable kaftan. |