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psych | soul |

As a noun psych

is psychology or psychiatry.

As a verb psych

is to put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).

As an interjection psych

is (slang) indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor also sike .

As an adjective soul is

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psych

English

Alternative forms

* psyche

Noun

(en noun)
  • Psychology or psychiatry.
  • a psych class
  • A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 476:
  • She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
  • To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
  • (informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
  • Derived terms

    * psych out * psych up

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike .
  • soul

    English

    (wikipedia soul)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

    Alternative forms

    * sowl (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • * Young
  • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----