psychal

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Every student of Carlyle will remember the very telling use to which he puts the idea contained in this word—speaking of the manifold relations of physical, psychal, and social health.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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.

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous

I sent for you to-night," he said, "not so much to administer to my bodily ailment, as to satisfy me concerning certain psychal impressions which, of late, have occasioned me much anxiety and surprise.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Slowly—with a tortoise gradation—approached the faint gray dawn of the psychal day.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Let us suppose only, that the soul of the man of to-day is upon the verge of some stupendous psychal discoveries.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan