Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteHaving to do with the psyche.
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.
1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
Origin
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psychal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychal
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