psychal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

psyche +‎ -al

Adjective[edit]

psychal (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Having to do with the psyche.
    • 1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition:
      It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief.
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