| 单词 |
psychometer |
| 释义 |
psychometer|-ˈɒmɪtə(r)|
[f. psycho- + -meter (cf. psychometry: in sense 1 as in geometer).]
1. One who has the psychometric faculty, or practises psychometry (sense 1).
1863Denton Nature's Secrets 97, I have repeatedly tried to influence the minds of Psychometers, when making examinations, and at all times without success. 1878J. R. Buchanan Psychophysiol. Sc. 72 The psychometer is not allowed even to see the manuscript, which is used by placing it on the centre of his forehead. 1903Daily Rec. & Mail 10 Sept. 5 If you be a good psychometer you will by and bye be able to see as in a mental photograph the person who formerly possessed the object.
2. A means of, or (supposed) instrument for, appreciating the quality and powers of a mind.
1867O. W. Holmes Guard. Angel xiii. (1891) 157 To know whether a minister, young or still in flower, is in safe or dangerous paths, there are two psychometers. 1889G. Huntington in Chicago Advance 31 Jan., I seriously believe that I have grown an intellectual inch... Is there such an instrument as a psychometer, do you know? |
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