单词 | psychagogic |
释义 | psychagogicadj. 1. That influences the mind; persuasive, attractive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] persuasiblea1425 persuasivec1487 persuadable1532 suading1557 persuasory1576 suasory1576 persuading1581 suasive1601 adamantic1605 inducing1606 inducive1611 inductious1620 flexanimous1621 pleaful1625 suasorian1646 psychagogical1822 psychagogic1846 the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] forcible1573 convincent1613 proofful1631 convictive1634 convincible1647 coercive1650 convincivea1657 evident1709 convincing1749 psychagogical1822 psychagogic1846 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 573 When we examine the psychagogic influences predominant in the society among whom this belief originally grew up. 1871 J. Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. 15 Essential conditions of psychagogic quality. 1911 Times 5 Oct. 10/3 In the case of the New Testament they had to lament that a mistaken theory of translation..had in too many places emptied the old version of its beauty, and so of its psychagogic power. 1994 Harvard Stud. in Classical Philol. 96 258 The wider context is public speech fired by emotion, psychagogic oratory. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I. 430/1 Psychagogic, having power to arouse or restore consciousness or mental activity. 3. [= Greek ψῡχαγωγός.] That calls up the spirits of the dead. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > of or belonging to necromancy > that practises necromantic1577 necromancinga1770 psychagogic1892 1892 Edinb. Rev. 175 423 In the play of the ‘Choëphoræ’ [sc. Agamemnon's] royal shade, powerful in the realm of death, is wrought upon by the long psychagogic odes to succour his avengers. 1951 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 41 166 The horse, not the goddess, is the essential element of the scheme as a psychagogic animal. 2000 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 90 162/1 Clearly this is a soul gate, and its function is ritual or psychagogic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1846 |
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