psychedelicn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌɪkᵻˈdɛlɪk/, U.S.

/ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk/

Forms: 1900s– psychedelic, 1900s– psychodelic.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ψυχή , δηλοῦν , -ic suffix.

Etymology: Irregularly < ancient Greek ψυχή psyche n. + δηλοῦν to make manifest, reveal ( < δῆλος manifest, visible: see delomorphic adj.) + -ic suffix.In form psychodelic after psycho- comb. form.

A. n.

1. A drug (esp. an illicit one) which produces an alteration in the mind, esp. an apparent expansion of consciousness often accompanied by hallucinations. Cf. sense B. 1a.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > psychotropic or psychedelic drug

psychedelic1956

psychodysleptic1957

psychotogen1957

psychotomimetic1957

psychochemical1958

psychopharmaceutical1962

psychoactive1965

psychotropic1966

psychomimetic1967

mood drug1970

1956 H. Osmond Let. in Lett. Aldous Huxley (1969) 795 To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic (Delos to manifest).

1956 A. Huxley Let. 22 July (1969) 803 As you say in your letter, we still know very little about the psychodelics.

1957 H. Osmond in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 66 429 The psychedelics help us to explore and fathom our own nature.

1959 R. C. Johnson Watcher on Hills x. 162 Experience under the psychedelics may have an important contribution to make to Art.

1977 Rolling 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.

1992 i-D July 25/3 Psychedelics open up your mind and force you to find new ways of expressing yourself and experiencing yourself.

2. A person who takes a psychedelic drug, or is involved in psychedelic culture. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > drug-user > user of hallucinogens

acid freak1966

acid head1966

psychedelic1966

psychedel1967

psychedeliac1975

1966 Time 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).

1967 Economist 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.

B. adj.

a. Of a drug (esp. an illicit one): producing an alteration in the mind, esp. an apparent expansion of consciousness through greater awareness of the sensations, emotions, and unconscious motivations, often accompanied by hallucinations. Cf. psychotomimetic adj.The widespread use of such drugs was originally associated with the 1960s counterculture.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [adjective] > psychotropic or psychedelic

psychopharmacologic1948

phrenotropic1956

psychedelic1957

psychochemical1958

consciousness-expanding1962

psychopharmaceutical1962

psychopharmacological1964

1957 H. Osmond in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 66 429 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.

1959 Times 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.

1965 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Jan. 104/1 The use of hallucinogenic (psychotomimetic, dysleptic, psychedelic) substances to produce altered states of consciousness is not new.

1967 New 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.’

1975 R. W. Brimblecombe & R. M. 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.

1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 205/2 South American Indians make a DMT snuff called yopo; they also add DMT-bearing plant leaves to a psychedelic brew they make with the yage or ayahuasca vine.

1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing i. 14 I was as nervous as hell..this being my first time with a psychedelic drug since I'd let go of the things of youth.

b. Of, relating to, or produced by such a drug.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [adjective] > psychotropic or psychedelic > relating to or produced by

psychedelic1963

1963 (title of periodical) The psychedelic review.

1964 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 15 Dec. 5 a/6 Reality is actually millions of times bigger and a psychedelic experience lets you see into it.

1965 G. Cummins Swan on Black Sea 116 He said that yours was possibly a psychedelic condition.

1966 New 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.

1970 G. 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.

1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 228 Obscure Indian restaurants all over New York became the scene of my spice-triggered psychedelic ‘trips’ with Fessenden.

c. Concerned with or characterized by the use of such drugs.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adjective] > characterized by use of psychedelic drugs

psychedelic1966

1966 New 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.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 123 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.

1976 New Musical Express 31 July 8/2 This obsession with the bizarrity came out of the psychedelic '60s.

1992 i-D July 28/3 It was that synthesis of psychedelic shamanism, smart cyberspace culture,..and that whole DMT/Ketamine-type distanced view of reality that I felt he represented.

a. Designating a style of popular music inspired or influenced by the effects of psychedelic drugs, typically featuring musical experimentation, exotic instrumentation, or surrealistic lyrics; (also) designating any of various genres of music based on this style or combining elements of this style with others.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > brightly

paintedc1400

prismatic1677

prismed1764

prismic1790

prismal1850

jazzy1917

psychedelic1965

1965 Los 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).

1966 Melody 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.

1968 Record Mirror 6 Jan. The label ‘psychedelic soul’ has been applied to this group [sc. the Fifth Dimension], but I don't see them as being particularly psychedelic or particularly soulful.

1984 City Limits 23 Nov. 49/6 Best of psychobilly, gothic, electro and psychedelic dance music.

2005 Wire Dec. 11/3 (advt.) Hushed drone rockers, touching on early Kautrock rhythms while delving into traditional psychedelic ambient music.

2009 S. Rosenberg Rock & Roll & Amer. Landscape xxxiv. 171 One of the greatest harbingers of funk and psychedelic soul was the group Sly & the Family Stone.

b. That imitates the visual effects of a psychedelic drug; spec. featuring intense, vivid colours often forming fluid swirling patterns.

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1966 Life Sept. 61/1 The world of art is ‘turning on’. It is getting hooked on psychedelic art.

1967 Daily 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.

1969 Observer 12 Jan. 8/3 The very latest psychedelic colours, electric purples and greens.

1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 71/1 A discotheque with a psychedelic lighting display making you virtually blind.

1973 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players (new ed.) v. 139 A secondhand Volkswagen van, which had been gaily painted in psychedelic designs by its previous owners.

1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn ii. 22 His shopping-bag—a ‘psychedelic’ plastic carrier, patterned in vivid colours, hinting at some unexpected aspect of his character.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 8 Dec. 74/4 This collaborative installation—an interactive psychedelic gallery landscape—allows the visitor to traverse kaleidoscopic hallways and corridors.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	psychedelic
释义	psychedelicn.adj. Brit. /ˌsʌɪkᵻˈdɛlɪk/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk/ Forms: 1900s– psychedelic, 1900s– psychodelic. Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ψυχή , δηλοῦν , -ic suffix. Etymology: Irregularly < ancient Greek ψυχή psyche n. + δηλοῦν to make manifest, reveal ( < δῆλος manifest, visible: see delomorphic adj.) + -ic suffix.In form psychodelic after psycho- comb. form. A. n. 1. A drug (esp. an illicit one) which produces an alteration in the mind, esp. an apparent expansion of consciousness often accompanied by hallucinations. Cf. sense B. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [noun] > psychotropic or psychedelic drug psychedelic1956 psychodysleptic1957 psychotogen1957 psychotomimetic1957 psychochemical1958 psychopharmaceutical1962 psychoactive1965 psychotropic1966 psychomimetic1967 mood drug1970 1956 H. Osmond Let. in Lett. Aldous Huxley (1969) 795 To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic (Delos to manifest). 1956 A. Huxley Let. 22 July (1969) 803 As you say in your letter, we still know very little about the psychodelics. 1957 H. Osmond in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 66 429 The psychedelics help us to explore and fathom our own nature. 1959 R. C. Johnson Watcher on Hills x. 162 Experience under the psychedelics may have an important contribution to make to Art. 1977 Rolling 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. 1992 i-D July 25/3 Psychedelics open up your mind and force you to find new ways of expressing yourself and experiencing yourself. 2. A person who takes a psychedelic drug, or is involved in psychedelic culture. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > drug-user > user of hallucinogens acid freak1966 acid head1966 psychedelic1966 psychedel1967 psychedeliac1975 1966 Time 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). 1967 Economist 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. B. adj. 1. a. Of a drug (esp. an illicit one): producing an alteration in the mind, esp. an apparent expansion of consciousness through greater awareness of the sensations, emotions, and unconscious motivations, often accompanied by hallucinations. Cf. psychotomimetic adj.The widespread use of such drugs was originally associated with the 1960s counterculture. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [adjective] > psychotropic or psychedelic psychopharmacologic1948 phrenotropic1956 psychedelic1957 psychochemical1958 consciousness-expanding1962 psychopharmaceutical1962 psychopharmacological1964 1957 H. Osmond in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 66 429 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. 1959 Times 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. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Jan. 104/1 The use of hallucinogenic (psychotomimetic, dysleptic, psychedelic) substances to produce altered states of consciousness is not new. 1967 New 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.’ 1975 R. W. Brimblecombe & R. M. 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. 1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 205/2 South American Indians make a DMT snuff called yopo; they also add DMT-bearing plant leaves to a psychedelic brew they make with the yage or ayahuasca vine. 1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing i. 14 I was as nervous as hell..this being my first time with a psychedelic drug since I'd let go of the things of youth. b. Of, relating to, or produced by such a drug. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine for mental conditions > [adjective] > psychotropic or psychedelic > relating to or produced by psychedelic1963 1963 (title of periodical) The psychedelic review. 1964 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 15 Dec. 5 a/6 Reality is actually millions of times bigger and a psychedelic experience lets you see into it. 1965 G. Cummins Swan on Black Sea 116 He said that yours was possibly a psychedelic condition. 1966 New 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. 1970 G. 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. 1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 228 Obscure Indian restaurants all over New York became the scene of my spice-triggered psychedelic ‘trips’ with Fessenden. c. Concerned with or characterized by the use of such drugs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adjective] > characterized by use of psychedelic drugs psychedelic1966 1966 New 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. 1967 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 123 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. 1976 New Musical Express 31 July 8/2 This obsession with the bizarrity came out of the psychedelic '60s. 1992 i-D July 28/3 It was that synthesis of psychedelic shamanism, smart cyberspace culture,..and that whole DMT/Ketamine-type distanced view of reality that I felt he represented. 2. a. Designating a style of popular music inspired or influenced by the effects of psychedelic drugs, typically featuring musical experimentation, exotic instrumentation, or surrealistic lyrics; (also) designating any of various genres of music based on this style or combining elements of this style with others. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] > brightly paintedc1400 prismatic1677 prismed1764 prismic1790 prismal1850 jazzy1917 psychedelic1965 1965 Los 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). 1966 Melody 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. 1968 Record Mirror 6 Jan. The label ‘psychedelic soul’ has been applied to this group [sc. the Fifth Dimension], but I don't see them as being particularly psychedelic or particularly soulful. 1984 City Limits 23 Nov. 49/6 Best of psychobilly, gothic, electro and psychedelic dance music. 2005 Wire Dec. 11/3 (advt.) Hushed drone rockers, touching on early Kautrock rhythms while delving into traditional psychedelic ambient music. 2009 S. Rosenberg Rock & Roll & Amer. Landscape xxxiv. 171 One of the greatest harbingers of funk and psychedelic soul was the group Sly & the Family Stone. b. That imitates the visual effects of a psychedelic drug; spec. featuring intense, vivid colours often forming fluid swirling patterns. ΚΠ 1966 Life Sept. 61/1 The world of art is ‘turning on’. It is getting hooked on psychedelic art. 1967 Daily 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. 1969 Observer 12 Jan. 8/3 The very latest psychedelic colours, electric purples and greens. 1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 71/1 A discotheque with a psychedelic lighting display making you virtually blind. 1973 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players (new ed.) v. 139 A secondhand Volkswagen van, which had been gaily painted in psychedelic designs by its previous owners. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn ii. 22 His shopping-bag—a ‘psychedelic’ plastic carrier, patterned in vivid colours, hinting at some unexpected aspect of his character. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 8 Dec. 74/4 This collaborative installation—an interactive psychedelic gallery landscape—allows the visitor to traverse kaleidoscopic hallways and corridors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1956
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