Definition of Bilocation

1. Noun. The ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist simultaneously in two locations.

Generic synonyms: Location

Definition of Bilocation

1. n. Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

Definition of Bilocation

1. Noun. The ability or fact of being in two places at once. ¹

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Definition of Bilocation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilocation

bilobalide
bilobar
bilobate
bilobated
bilobectomy
bilobed
bilobed flap
bilobular
bilocal
bilocality
bilocally
bilocate
bilocated
bilocates
bilocating
bilocation (current term)
bilocations
bilocular
bilocular capsule
bilocular femoral hernia
bilocular joint
biloculate
biloculine
bilokinase
bilophodont
biloquial
biloquism
biloquist
biloquists

Literary usage of Bilocation

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

1. Future Life in the Light of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science by Louis Lucien Baclé (1906)
"bilocation. — Luminous Manifestations.— Materialisation. — The Spiritistic View of Spirit Rapping and Oral or Written Messages. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"That bilocation (multilocation) is physically impossible, that is, contrary to all ... The instances of bilocation narrated in lives of the sainte can to ..."

3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1871)
"... that the word " bilocation " has been invented to express the miraculous faculty possessed by certain Saints of the Roman Church, of being in two places ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"(3) One may see material objects, as though by " bilocation," from a point apparently remote from one's body. This would be what used to be called ..."

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