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单词 psychographer
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psychographern.

Brit. /sʌɪˈkɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑɡrəfər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: psycho- comb. form, -grapher comb. form.
Etymology: < psycho- comb. form + -grapher comb. form, after psychography n. With sense 1 compare German Psychograph instrument for producing psychographs (1853 or earlier), French psychographe medium who produces psychographs (1863 (in the passage translated in quot. 1876) or earlier).
1. Spiritualism. A medium who produces psychographs (see psychograph n. 3). Also: an instrument for producing psychographs (now rare).
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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.
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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).
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