Mystic
['mɪstɪk]
Definition
(noun.) someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension.
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of mysticism; 'mystical religion' .
(adj.) relating to or resembling mysticism; 'mystical intuition'; 'mystical theories about the securities market' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Mystical
(n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Mysterious, hidden, enigmatical, obscure, occult, recondite, inscrutable, abstruse, dark, cabalistic, transcendental.
Checker: Olga
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mysterious, cabalistic, magical
ANT:Plain, matter-of-fact, everyday, familiar, commonplace, obvious, household
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Definition
adj. relating to or containing mystery: sacredly obscure or secret: involving a sacred or a secret meaning hidden from the eyes of the ordinary reader only revealed to a spiritually enlightened mind allegorical: belonging to mysticism.—n. Mys′tic one who seeks for direct intercourse with God in elevated religious feeling or ecstasy.—adv. Mys′tically.—ns. Mys′ticalness the quality of being mystical; Mys′ticism the doctrine of the mystics a tendency of religious feeling marked by an effort to attain to direct and immediate communion with God: obscurity of doctrine; Mystificā′tion.—v.t. Mys′tify to make mysterious obscure or secret: to involve in mystery:—pr.p. mys′tifying; pa.t. and pa.p. mys′tified.—Mystic recitation the recitation of parts of the Greek liturgy in an inaudible voice; Mystical theology the knowledge of divine things attained by spiritual insight and experience only without authority the process of reason &c.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- Save for the extreme beauty and mystic attractiveness of this distinct, strange face, she would have sent him away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He would be night-free, like an Egyptian, steadfast in perfectly suspended equilibrium, pure mystic nodality of physical being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In a strange uplift of elation she saw him, the being never to be revealed, awful in its potency, mystic and real. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whate'er men name thee in thy mystic might, With sacrifice and songs I worship thee: So grant, O Moon! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Unutterable relief instantly filled them as if they fell upon the mystic jewel which sparkled in the centre of my stolen headpiece. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ursula had caught sight of the big, pallid, mystic letters 'OSTEND,' standing in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But at midnight,--strange, mystic hour! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For she was to him what he was to her, the immemorial magnificence of mystic, palpable, real otherness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The sense of the awfulness of riches that could never be impaired flooded her mind like a swoon, a death in most marvellous possession, mystic-sure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Eva, the beautiful Eva, had stood listening to her mother, with that expression of deep and mystic earnestness which was peculiar to her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- All the while her thought was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was as the abode of a fairy to him--a mystic chamber of splendour and delights. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The little red pistillate flowers had some strange, almost mystic-passionate attraction for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Paul