1846 Lit. Gaz. 31 Jan. 101/2 The ‘Rue Morgue Murders’..is introduced by a specimen of mind-reading which Dr. Elliotson's Adolphe or Okey might vainly attempt to equal.

1875 J. S. Grimes Myst. Head & Heart Explained iii. 296 The attention of the public has lately been aroused by an apparently wonderful phenomenon denominated mind reading.

1882 Catholic World May 282 Historians of Mr. Froude's stamp..are endowed with that strange gift of ‘mind-reading’, but, what is stranger still, they read the most secret thoughts of people who have been dead and buried for centuries.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists May 193/3 It is quite legitimate for a scientist to investigate whether such phenomena as, for example, mind reading or divination of the future (clairvoyance) do exist.

1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors xi. 120 The pigeons always eluded me. They were endowed with an uncanny power of mind-reading.

1998 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. (Connected section) 8/2 As well as mind-reading, the cognitive cockpit might read your face with a tracking mechanism to detect panic as eyes dart around irregularly.

1904 Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 183 Of the ten chapters only three are devoted to the fundamental topics of the science, while hallucinations, hypnotism, mental healing, mind-reading telepathy and multiple personality claim the other seven.

1951 Demolished Man (1978) i. 13 You'd think a mind-reading doctor could stop screaming.

1991 Times 27 July 19/3 Hopkins's role as the mind-reading cannibalistic serial-killer in The Silence of the Lambs.

2000 U.S. News & World Rep. 3 Jan. 67/2 The Lockheed Martin neuroengineer hopes to turn the ‘electrohypnomentalophone’, a mind-reading machine invented by one of Buck's [i.e. Buck Rogers's] buddies, from science fiction into science fact.