"Didelphous" is a word in ENGLISH
Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted
to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are
many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration
in Appendix.
Didelphic.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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