单词 | contactee |
释义 | contacteen. A person who is contacted; (spec.) a person who claims to have encountered and typically to have communicated with extraterrestrial beings. ΚΠ 1960 T. James in Flying Saucer Rev. Jan.–Feb. 19/2 Seldom are the contactees men of learning, able to meet the scientist on his own ground. 1970 Ley Hunter Jan. 3 A contactee informs me that navigation by the old leys is difficult nowadays for a flying saucer. 1987 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 374 The diagonal shows the number of contactees of each individual. 2001 UFO Mag. Jan. 64/4 (advt.) A channeller or contactee required who can communicate with the Pleiadia race. Derivatives contacˈteeism n. ΚΠ 1965 Pix 31 July 15/1 The whole rotten mercenary business of contacteeism, meetings with angels, rides to Venus, marriage to beautiful space-women and the inevitable books about them which have helped to create in the minds of many a perverted image of the flying saucer field. 1978 D. A. J. Sergeant UFOs vi. 117 (heading) Contacteeism—the religion of the flying saucers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1960 |
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