quasi-physical
- a word derived from physical.
Example Sentences
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He is the victim of a quasi-physical compulsion.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond
From highest to lowest, from the head teacher of the school to the youngest child in the bottom class, all the teachers and all the children are subjected to the pressure of this quasi-physical force.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond
The word is to be taken in its strict sense as a protest against the quasi-physical order of law.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Sacrifice was believed to exert an influence on the deity which is quasi-physical, and in sacrificial feasts God and worshipper are in mysterious union.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
But these do not exert a quasi-physical or magical influence, ex opere operato.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
