单词 | psychagogue |
释义 | psychagoguen. 1. A person who calls up the spirits of the dead; a necromancer. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] > necromancer nigromancera1387 nigromancianc1390 necromancer1547 necromantic?1548 necromantist1584 black-artist1593 nigromant1598 nigromantica1600 psychagogue1843 necromanta1849 1843 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. Ψυχαγωγός,..as subst. a necromancer, psychagogue. 1882 Daily News 12 Dec. 5/4 Our modern psychagogues, the members of the Psychical Society, have not been much more fortunate in calling up spirits than their ancient models. 1928 W. H. Auden Poems 20 Eyes Look in the glass, confess The tightening of the mouth; Know the receding face A blemished psychogogue; But symmetry will please. 1976 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 44 633 Eros is also Hermes in child form, shares with him the role of intermediary, of psychogogue and guide to the underworld. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 258/1 Psychagogues, necromancers, who invoke the spirits of the dead. 2. A person who directs the mind; a teacher, an instructor. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > one who persuades persuader1538 inducer1554 psychagogue1847 1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 343 All this must be effected and enforced by the physician, as a psychagogue [Ger. Psychagog] or instructor of the mind. 1951 Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Devel. 16 63 We avoid the atomistic fallacy to which many self-consciously scientific..psychogogues are prone. 1997 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 116 377 Paul attempts to persuade the Corinthian psychagogues to adopt his own flexible style. ΚΠ 1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. & Med. Terminol. 628/2 Psychagogues, medicines which resuscitate, as in cases of syncope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。