单词 | psychographer |
释义 | psychographern. 1. Spiritualism. A medium who produces psychographs (see psychograph n. 3). Also: an instrument for producing psychographs (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > spirit-writing > medium for psychographer1854 psychographist1893 the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > spirit-writing > instrument used in psychographer1854 planchette1860 1854 C. Dickens Let. 7 Mar. (1993) VII. 286 A thing called a Psycho-grapher, which writes at the dictation of spirits. 1860 F. Kapp tr. A. von Humboldt Lett. 296 The psychographer takes the place of the moving table; they try to enforce my faith in the absurdity. 1876 A. Blackwell tr. ‘A. Kardec’ Medium's Bk. 447 Psychographer [Fr. psychographe], a person who writes by psychography; a writing medium. 1908 Ann. Psychical Sci. 7 361/1 The enthusiasts..proclaim her a seer,..an evoker, a psychographer, [etc.]. 1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. c57/1 If he shopped around, a 19th-century American could consult a psychographer or a hydropath or a magnetizer. 2. = psychobiographer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > interdisciplinary psychology > [noun] > psychohistory > applied to biography > writer of psychographer1912 psychohistorian1929 psychobiographer1934 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer > writer of psychobiography psychographer1912 psychobiographer1934 1912 G. Bradford Lee the American 269 The prince of all psychographers is incontestably Sainte-Beuve. 1961 New Eng. Q. 34 404 Although he does not pretend to be writing a critical study of Hawthorne, the psychographer..cannot resist the temptation..to quarrel with Hyatt H. Waggoner. 1991 19th-cent. Lit. 45 478 It left reviewers, as it has since left critics, biographers, historians, psychographers—all of us—dumbfounded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854 |
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