Sekirov Dictionary

psychograph

noun 8
verb 1
forms 3

noun8

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One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
- Psychographs could be used to describe the occupation as well as the person. — 2000
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psychobiography
- Thus, any attempt to write a biography of McClellan inevitably "devolves into a psychograph." — 1998
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Any of various devices that purportedly read a person's thoughts.
- A psychograph was a machine that was invented in the early 1900s to read people's thoughts. The first machine, introduced in 1931, contained almost 2,000 parts. — 2005
A device that measures a person's head according to phrenological principles, invented by Henry C. Lavery in the first half of the 20th century.
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A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin.
- A remarkably clear psychograph — a thought-picture — was taken, or impressed, upon a plate in Hope's home without the plate being exposed to light. — 1938
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Any of various devices used for automatic writing.
- A psychograph or a planchette is an apparatus used in spiritistic circles as an instrument for receiving written messages from the spirits of the dead. — 1971
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A photograph, film, or other recorded image that evokes the feeling of a person, time, or place.
- However, the main focus of the film is not on creating a psychograph of an epoch and its people, but on how images can make a statement about the reality of an era. — 2004
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A piece of prose that describes hallucinations or phantoms.
- In its final form it might be a phatasmagoric mixture of the poem in prose, the popular tale of folklore, the psychograph, the essay, the myth, the saga, the humoresque. — 1996

verb1

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To produce a psychograph (any sense, except the phrenological one).
- That his personal level of instruction was very low is a well-known fact – and has the effect of enhancing the results of his psychographed poetry. — 2013

forms

psychographed · psychographing · psychographs

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