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Definition of Prodigies
1. prodigy [n] - See also: prodigy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodigies
Literary usage of Prodigies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"Mathematical prodigies. — Musical prodigies. — Measurement of Time. — Distinction
between Results of Objective Education and Intuitive Perception. ..."
2. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1886)
"Many, after the siege, declared, that, among other prodigies, they beheld a stream
of light, of a blood-red color, coming from the north in the direction of ..."
3. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1896)
"Mathematical prodigies. — Musical prodigies. — Measurement of Time. — Distinction
between Results of Objective Education and Intuitive Perception. ..."
4. The Law of psychic phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1902)
"The first of these classes of phenomena is manifested in mathematical prodigies ;
the second in musical prodigies ; and the third pertains to the ..."
5. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1893)
"Mathematical prodigies. — Musical prodigies. — Measurement of Time. — Distinction
between Results of Objective Education and Intuitive Perception. ..."
6. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1900)
"Mathematical prodigies. — Musical prodigies. — Measurement of Time. — Distinction
between Results of Objective Education and Intuitive Perception. ..."
7. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"Many, after the siege, declared that, among other prodigies, they beheld a stream
of light, of a blood- red color, coming from the north in the direction of ..."
8. A Foundational Study in the Pedagogy of Arithmetic by Henry Budd Howell (1914)
"prodigies, or lightning calculators, as they are popularly called, ... The prodigies
are essentially children or primitive men in their numerical operations ..."