Metaphysical \Met`a*phys"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. m['e]taphysique. See {Metaphysics}.] 1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.
3. Preternatural or supernatural. [Obs.]
The golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. --Shak.
"In the beginning, I thought I would spend most of my time thinking about metaphysical questions," Mrs. Le Guen said. "But when you're alone down there you only think about taking care of yourself.
The suits by the victims' survivors allege that Mrs. Hoffman used hypnosis to make her associates change their wills and insurance policies to favor her and her metaphysical organization, Conscious Development of Body, Mind and Soul Inc.
They are by turns witty and tragic, topical and metaphysical, impressively worldly and endearingly naive.
For metaphysical painting, forerunner of surrealism yet quite distinct, and admittedly of authentic art-historical significance, was held by the 1920s to have had its day.
John Goodman appears in yet another variation on his beer-guzzling fatso, this time as a somewhat metaphysical exterminator.
At its most pretentious, "Strange Interlude" causes one to speculate that "Dallas" might be successfully transferred to the stage simply by adding a little metaphysical trim.
'What is a metaphysical restaurant?'
For this and other metaphysical reasons I have not kicked a ball in anger or design for 30 years. Soccer had also begun to bore.
A good read for sure, but Fascinated is little more than a clever kid's screenplay. As for gloom, Garry O'Connor paints a very unfunny portrait of John Donne in his imaginary memoir of the metaphysical poet, Campion's Ghost.
We have metaphysical warblings about time and memory.
The metaphysical depths of The Tempest lie wholly in its language, and Sibelius was not writing an opera. At the Barbican on Saturday, Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony gave us a glowing account of the complete music.
'It guaran tees the change from a closed protected economy to an open, competitive one.' Other Mexicans see the treaty in almost metaphysical terms.
Among the most majestic of the cubist paintings in this show is "Rooftops at Ceret" of 1911, in which the angular rooftops and chimneys of the Catalan town are translated into a kind of speculative, metaphysical geometry.
Nouvel sees his tower as 'a metaphysical object' and an exercise in 'urban poetry'.