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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Aside from or subsidiary to what is physical.

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Examples

  • The mechanisms-if indeed they are mechanisms-of the pyramid belong to a technology that lies far beyond our horizon, perhaps to the technology of paraphysical forces.

    Tin 2010

  • "Alien Contacts and Abductions" contains lots of case-files relevant to my own Indigenous Hypothesis, which maintains that the UFO/contact phenomenon is neither extraterrestrial nor paraphysical -- at least as usually envisioned.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Mac 2006

  • But still, I've never found anyone who says that for the rest of his life, he plans to eschew physical sex for paraphysical sex in a virtual environment.

    The Myth of Cybersexual Losers 2006

  • But still, I've never found anyone who says that for the rest of his life, he plans to eschew physical sex for paraphysical sex in a virtual environment.

    The Myth of Cybersexual Losers 2006

  • I turned my gaze to the books alongside me and noticed that the shelves were filled with titles describing meditation practices, astrology, faith healing, the afterlife and paraphysical wonders, whatever they were.

    Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997

  • I turned my gaze to the books alongside me and noticed that the shelves were filled with titles describing meditation practices, astrology, faith healing, the afterlife and paraphysical wonders, whatever they were.

    Unfinished Symphony V.C. Andrews® 1997

  • "It's a kind of-paraphysical surveillance device and library."

    Trumps of Doom Zelazny, Roger 1985

  • So it was actually a Kalup unity which screened the tracking beam from normal and paraphysical influences.

    Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977

  • The structural mechanics of such paraphysical waves precluded any reaction to regular matter or normal energy phenomena.

    Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977

  • The mechanisms-if indeed they are mechanisms-of the pyramid belong to a technology that lies far beyond our horizon, perhaps to the technology of paraphysical forces.

    The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

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