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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Parapsychological.
  • noun A parapsychologist.

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Examples

  • Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication ( "Readers 'Digest") and the local press (in 1977 and 1982, respectively), defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.

    First Department 2008

  • Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication ( "Readers 'Digest") and the local press (in 1977 and 1982, respectively), defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.

    Funny stuff 2007

  • When young Peter Reidinger made the first mind machine gestalt, pushing a light spacecraft by telekinesis from orbit to Mars, a new era dawned for the parapsychic Talents in which they found themselves celebrated instead of shunned, admired instead of feared, and necessary to every aspect of the surge forward from the crowded and resources-poor planet Earth.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • The psychical match to the quintessential individuality of the Lensman was exact-so perfect, in fact, that it released latent parapsychic or psi powers, telepathy in particular.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • However accompanying this loss of his true identity was a parallel increase of his parapsychic abilities.

    Menace of the Mutant Master Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • These mechanisms would replace the parapsychic gift of teleportation for any person traveling inside their cage by transporting them via the fifth dimension to any place where a correspondingly adjusted receiving set was stationed.

    Menace of the Mutant Master Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • Pucky happens to have a 3-ply parapsychic capability and therefore he's best suited for controlling unusual situations-not to mention protecting me from special dangers.

    Starless Realm Ernsting, Walter 1976

  • Of course it required substantially more of his parapsychic energies to do this but he was able to continue such an operation for a certain length of time.

    Starless Realm Ernsting, Walter 1976

  • I opened my parapsychic mono-screen so that I could receive Marshall's telepathic signals.

    Mystery of the Anti Scheer, Karl 1976

  • I overcame the radiations of the Greens and made parapsychic contact with the ship.

    Secret Mission Moluk Voltz, William 1975

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