oneirocritical
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAncient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikós) (from ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”) + κριτικός (kritikós, “able to discern”)) + -al.
Adjective
editoneirocritical (comparative more oneirocritical, superlative most oneirocritical)
- Of or relating to the interpretation of dreams.
- oneirocritical literature
- 1714 October 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, September 22, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 597; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- he may employ himself a while in that new kind of observation which my oneirocritical correspondent has directed him to make of himself.
References
edit- “oneirocritical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.