psychicallyadv.
/ˈsʌɪkᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈsaɪkᵻk(ə)li/ In a psychic or psychical manner; with reference to the soul or mind; mentally, psychologically.
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the mind > [adverb]
mentally1688
psychicallya1832
a1832 J. Bentham Ess. Logic in Wks. (1843) VIII. 229/2 Physically passive and psychically passive;..psychically passive, the sensitive passive faculties by which man is enabled, and made to experience such sensations as not presenting themselves as having their seat in any determinate part of the body—spring up, to all appearance, immediately, and in the first instance, in the mind.
1856 Lamps of Temple (ed. 3) 105 A little Leo IX—more like him personally and psychically than any other pope.
1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living I. 97 A state psychically or physically abnormal.
1912 D. H. Lawrence Trespasser vi. 53 Physically..she shrank from anything extreme. But psychically she was an extremist, and a dangerous one.
1992 M. Bishop Count Geiger's Blues xxxv. 172 Bowman, psychically aseethe, had come below to think about his meteoric descent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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