Definition of Reiki

1. Noun. A Japanese form of alternative medicine believed to involve transferring chi through one's palms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reiki

1. a Japanese natural therapy using gentle massage [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reiki

reign of terror
reigned
reigner
reigners
reigneth
reigning
reigning-in
reignite
reignited
reignites
reigniting
reignition
reignitions
reigns
reik
reiki (current term)
reikis
reiks
reillume
reillumed
reillumes
reilluminate
reilluminated
reilluminates
reilluminating
reillumination
reilluminations
reillumine
reillumined
reillumines

Literary usage of Reiki

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Radiant Healing: The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness by Isabel Bellamy, Donald MacLean (2005)
"reiki Since reiki is believed to have originated in Japan, it might upset purists to ... reiki can be thought of as spiritually guided life-force energy. ..."

2. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"reiki and also "radiance," a form of reiki, are examples of this view (Ray, 1987). reiki teaches that the practitioner is merely a conduit for spiritual ..."

3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"cS in the gth month of 1st year reiki !£ S& (715 AD) a decree appeared pardoning all ... In the 2nd year of reiki (716 AD) 6th month, a decree appeared ..."

4. The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, William Ramsden (1906)
"She instituted a new Nengo, Wat To, which continu'd seven years, till the Nengo reiki. In the first year of her reign, she order'd Money to be coin'd in ..."

5. The History of Japan, Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, Hammond Gibben, William Ramsden (1906)
"She instituted a new Nengo, Wat To, which continu'd seven years, till the Nengo reiki. In the third year of her reign was built the famous Temple ..."

6. A Mœso-Gothic glossary, with an intr., an outline of Mœso-Gothic grammar by Walter William Skeat (1868)
"reiki, stf. sb. n. power, authority, Lu. 20. 20; Rom. 8. 38; 1 Cor. 15. 24. From reiks. [E. -ric in bishopric. ..."

7. Origines Patriciae, Or, A Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and by Robert Thomas Hampson (1846)
"... and reiki, as the name of kingdom; and while the compounds are not to be found elsewhere, reiki is obvious in the Anglo-Saxon rice, the Norse, riki, ..."

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