psychal en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English psyche Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English psychal From psyche + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Having to do with the psyche.
It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such only inasmuch as it intensely excites, by elevating the soul; and all intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief.
1846, E. A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition: