pneumatology
Americannoun
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Theology.
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doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit.
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the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
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the doctrine or theory of spiritual beings.
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Archaic. psychology.
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Obsolete. pneumatics.
noun
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the branch of theology concerned with the Holy Ghost and other spiritual beings
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an obsolete name for psychology
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an obsolete term for pneumatics
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Bush on Pneumatology, 309.—Satire on the Rappers, by J.R.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Pneumatology was no science, but the mere fancy of an excited imagination.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Pneumatology, or, as it was also called, Rational Psychology, has been already alluded to in the Introduction to the Logic as an abstract and generalising metaphysic of the subject.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
There has been a great change of late years in connection with the science of Pneumatology and with the manner of treating it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
The science of the body was Somatology, that of the mind Pneumatology.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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