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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A term formed on the analogy of metaphysical to denote phenomena beyond the range of ordinary consciousness; occult or transcendental: applied to the phenomena of psychical research.

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Examples

  • If Maxwell is right, these phenomena -- even the most complicated of them -- are metapsychical, but perfectly normal.

    The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900

  • 'Therefore, in the critical state of research, the scientific problem, it seems to me, is not whether spiritism be true or false, but whether metapsychical phenomena are real or imaginary.

    The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900

  • At that time there were very few scientific men in the metapsychical field.

    The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900

  • a man of the open air, of the plains and the mountains, and do not intend to identify myself with any branch of metapsychical research.

    The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900

  • I contented myself with listening for the first half-hour, but at last took occasion to say to Miller: "Like all violent opponents of the metapsychical, you know very little of the subject you are discussing.

    The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900

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