Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as psychiatric.

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  • adjective relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry

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Examples

  • All had been sent once or more than once to Garmisch-Partenkirchen for two weeks 'mud-baths and psychiatrical sessions.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • In psychiatrical medicine they are especially to be inquired for.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

  • Like all psychiatrical institutions, it has to live down the traditional notions of the half-informed public; it has to make conspicuous the change of spirit and the better light in which we see our field and responsibilities.

    A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various

  • Nevertheless, am neither Webster nor a psychiatrical contortionist who can elucidate the said-to-be subconscious subterfuges of the mechanical instrument known as the brain.

    Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

  • Of the sixty institutions connected with the university the most important are the large medical infirmaries (surgical, gynæcological, psychiatrical, optical) and general clinical hospitals; the physical, geological, botanical, and zoological institutes; the academical reading-rooms.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • For a man of the superior minority to subscribe to one of them publicly was already sufficient to set him off as one in imminent need of psychiatrical attention.

    The Antichrist 1895

  • For a man of the superior minority to subscribe to one of them publicly was already sufficient to set him off as one in imminent need of psychiatrical attention.

    The Antichrist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Drag to Playlist video is not paSSING. -find out with police after detain-luchkov/s psychiatry which he needole to others at detain they accused at first in spy; then sexually threatens and insults; then become psychiatrical. next video is again stucked.; "- bush does not agree with terrorism -" from my husband message: -- Russia's authority declares direct totalitarian regime in country by unsancctured arrests of not welcome dissidents.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Sokurov pictured the life of wretched town in Turkmenia, sick children, psychiatrical clinic and the Desert with a mixed sound in the background - radio retranslatons, symphony music and multilingual voices.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • "I feel I should say immediately and honestly that we in the psychiatrical field have had little success in inhibiting appetites.

    The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

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