telepathize
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edittelepathize (third-person singular simple present telepathizes, present participle telepathizing, simple past and past participle telepathized)
- (transitive, parapsychology) To establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.
- 1978, Paul E. Meehl, “Precognitive Telepathy I: On The Possibility of Distinguishing it Experimentally from Psychokinesis”, in Noûs, volume 12, number 3, page 249:
- Suppose we assume that the percipient does precognitively telepathize the two-seconds-in-the-future psychological state of the agent's brain/mind.
- (intransitive, parapsychology) To engage in telepathic communication.
- 1962, W. I. Matson, “Against Induction and Empiricism,”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume 62, page 152:
- It does not seem to make sense to speak of learning to telepathize.
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