psychometricaladj.
/ˌsʌɪkəˈmɛtrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈmɛtrək(ə)l/ = psychometric adj. (in various senses).
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1852 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia III. xii. 146 When we read the descriptions of the same mental sympathy, and of powers of psychometrical discernment, in the pages of the Old or New Testament, we put it down to the direct influence of the Holy Ghost.
1864 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 661/1 Mr. Denton, the geologist, has expounded the theory of ‘Psychometry’, which he tells us is the divination of soul through the contact of matter with a psychometrical mind.
1868 W. H. Dixon Spiritual Wives II. 253 She was a medium possessed of psychometrical powers.
1922 E. Wallace Crimson Circle ii. 14 The police might sneer at Yale's psychometrical powers.
1994 Electromyogr. & Neurophysiol. 34 137 19 patients with a neurological manifestation of Wilson's disease..underwent clinical, psychometrical and electrophysiological evaluation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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