dei ex machinis

English

Noun

dei ex machinis

  1. plural of deus ex machina
    • c. 1910, George Robert Stow Mead, Some Mystical Adventures, republication edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 1993, →ISBN, →OL, page 11:
      Is our salvation to be dependent upon machines; are we to become dei ex machinis?
    • 1954, Meanjin Quarterly, University of Melbourne, page 211:
      The dei ex machinis and the bug-eyed monsters are both products of man’s imagination — extensions and projections of his own desires, fears and hopes about himself, often revealing more about the sorts of things he believes in — or unconsciously wants to believe in — than he himself recognises.
    • 2007, Susan Miller, Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
      Apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and various dei ex machinis endow these true-life fictions with spiritual qualities, useful as new secular verification that God’s plan is […]
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