Mystery
['mɪst(ə)rɪ] or [ˈmɪstəri]
Definition
(noun.) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; 'how it got out is a mystery'; 'it remains one of nature's secrets'.
(noun.) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie.
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.
(a.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
(a.) The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
(a.) Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
(n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.
(n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
Checker: Wilmer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Secret, enigma, riddle.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enigma, puzzle, obscurity, secrecy, veil, shroud, arcanum
ANT:Publication, solution, commonplace, truism, matter-of-fact
Editor: Myra
Definition
n. a secret doctrine: anything very obscure: that which is beyond human knowledge to explain: anything artfully made difficult: (pl.) secret rites in ancient religions rites known only to and practised by initiated persons as the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece &c.: a sacrament: a rude medieval drama founded on the historical parts of the Bible and the lives of the saints—the Basque pastorales are a survival.—adj. Mystē′rious containing mystery: obscure: secret: incomprehensible.—adv. Mystē′riously.—n. Mystē′riousness.
n. a trade handicraft.
Editor: Lois
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself bewildered by some mysterious event, denotes that strangers will harass you with their troubles and claim your aid. It warns you also of neglected duties, for which you feel much aversion. Business will wind you into unpleasant complications. To find yourself studying the mysteries of creation, denotes that a change will take place in your life, throwing you into a higher atmosphere of research and learning, and thus advancing you nearer the attainment of true pleasure and fortune.
Typist: Ruth
Examples
- An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I shook her loose--the mystery! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To be man was as nothing compared to the possibilities of the creative mystery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Can you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons for your action? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- An instant later the mystery was explained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The way to the Secret lay through the mystery, hitherto impenetrable to all of us, of the woman in white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why a thousand people are not run over and crippled every day is a mystery that no man can solve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It's a blessed mystery to me, cried Pycroft, scratching his head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We sent him to the captain, and he explained to him the mystery of ship time and set his troubled mind at rest. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Next day the mystery of the guineas was explained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Do you see any prospect of solving this mystery, Mr. Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Gerald was left behind like a postulant in the ante-room of this temple of mysteries, this woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Suddenly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It desc ribes itself as Instructions for arriving at the knowledge of all things, and of things obscure, and of all mysteries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But my mind had been running on Grace Poole--that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The suggestion of primitive art was their refuge, and the inner mysteries of sensation their object of worship. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As to his shirt-collar, and his coat-collar, they were perplexing to reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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