Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pneumatic . - noun A vaporous substance; a gas.
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- adjective
pneumatic
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Examples
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Of this I am sufficiently convinced by the potency of the virtues of pneumatical bodies (which otherwise would be floating in empty space like fine dust) and by many other proofs.
The New Organon 2005
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Epicurus, that it is constituted of four qualities, of a fiery quality, of an aerial quality, a pneumatical, and of a fourth quality which hath no name, but it contains the virtue of the sense.
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But, on the other hand, in fully adopting the old scholastic creationism, he supposes a special creation of the _soul_, a separation of body and soul, which in this form is very contestable, and might better have been replaced by a separation of natural and rational or of physico-psychical and pneumatical parts of his being.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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The lower story, the psychical, was created or furnished by the Demiurge, or sub-divine creator of the natural system, while the top-story, or pneumatical self, was a
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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In his thought, a deep cleavage runs through the human race and divides it into two sharply-sundered classes, "psychical men" and "pneumatical men" -- men who live according to nature, and men who live by the life of the Spirit.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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They looked, in fact, if it be not irreverent to say it, rather like so many bundles of pneumatical rags than respectable domestic ghosts.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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Valentine announced the distinction between a psychical and pneumatical Christianity.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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"Name of Truth" appears in the formula of pneumatical baptism, 561-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The air-pump, invented by Otto Guerick, a German, facilitated pneumatical experiments.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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a fiery, an aeriform, a pneumatical, and a nameless one, which latter is said to cause sensations: — κρᾶμα ἐκ τεττάρων, ἐκ ποιοῦ
Lunheng 1962
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