psychal

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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

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 Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works 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

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