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Definition of Thought-reader

1. Noun. Someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly.

2. Noun. A magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thought-reader

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Literary usage of Thought-reader

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

1. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1904)
"THE thought-reader OF ANGELS ' REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES WE hev tumbled ez dust Or ez worms of the ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"At last the " Thought - Reader " stopped, and, after declaring he could do nothing with ... Then the "Thought-Reader" had a good deal to say about Messrs. ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"In this exclamation the thought- reader gave himself entirely away, ... So little did this thought-reader understand the importance of the admission he made ..."

4. To-day: The Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism edited by Ernest Belfort Bax, James Leigh Joynes, F. Bland, Hubert Bland (1883)
"... the city he said to himself— " And they say in the newspapers that police-constables are unintelligent!" CHAPTER VIII. MR. PRIESTLEY THE thought-reader. ..."

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