Psychics. [f. TELE- + Gr. -πάθεια feeling, perception: see -PATHY.] ‘The communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense’ (Myers, Human Personality, Gloss.).
1882. Myers, in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research, I. II. 147 [see TELÆSTHESIA].
1883. Athenæum, 18 Aug., 213/3. In … after-dinner experiments … telepathy, thought-reading, and hypnotism are trifled with as amusements.
1894. H. Drummond, Ascent Man, 234. Telepathy is theoretically the next stage in the Evolution of Language.
So Telepath sb., Telepathist, an adept in, subject of, or believer in telepathy; Telepath v., (a) trans. to convey or transmit by means of telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy; Telepathetic (nonce-wd.), Telepathic adjs., pertaining to, of the nature of, or effected by telepathy; Telepathically adv., in a telepathic manner, by means of telepathy; Telepathize v., (a) trans. to communicate with or affect (a person) by telepathy; (b) intr. to practise telepathy.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 9 Feb., 3/2. There is a pleasant mystery about the origin of the 9-in. shell which startled Selsey the other day…. It looks as though the *telepaths would have to be called in to account for its origin.
1886. Sat. Rev., 4 Dec., 751/1. Whether spooks are *telepathed about … by promiscuous persons, or whether the Thibetan Adepts go spooking astrally through the world.
1891. Review of Rev., 15 Oct., 347/2. As soon as a man begins to speculate as to how he telepaths, he loses the power of telepathing.
1895. Edin. Rev., Jan., 93. It may be that these communications have really been ‘telepathed’ from some living mind.
1892. Sat. Rev., 6 Aug., 157/1. Was there, then, some ‘communication’ of a *‘telepathetic’ sort?
1884. Gurney & Myers, in 19th Century, May, 800. We hope to show that the lowest *telepathic manifestations may be used to explain and corroborate the highest.
1903. Myers, Human Personality, II. p. xv. Telepathic intercourse, if carried far enough, corresponds to possession or to ecstasy. Ibid. (1884), in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research, VII. 219. Drawing a picture which he feels to be *telepathically presented to his mind’s eye.
1886. Gurney, etc., Phantasms of Living, I. 111. His aspect … is telepathically perceived.
1892. W. L. Peet, A Test Case, in Longman’s Mag., XXI. Dec., 169. Rachel Brinton was now Mrs. Schuydam, the celebrated transatlantic *telepathist and clairvoyante.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 12 Sept., 3/3. Knowing myself now to be a telepathist,… I look with regret to the many opportunities I have missed.
1900. Pall Mall G., 31 Oct., 3. Mr. Andrew Lang discourses … of three female professors of telepathy, concluding that Joan of Arc was a true telepathist.
