Mystical
['mɪstɪk(ə)l] or ['mɪstɪkl]
Definition
(a.) Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
(a.) Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Mysterious, hidden, enigmatical, obscure, occult, recondite, inscrutable, abstruse, dark, cabalistic, transcendental.
Typist: Veronica
Examples
- Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. Plato. The Republic.
- Similar views have, as is well known, been maintained by Oken in his mystical Natur-Philosophie. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And from this source he had a pure and magic control, magical, mystical, a force in darkness, like electricity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is scarcely anything that we can suppose to be a religious or mystical symbol at all in his productions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If a man proposed that the judges of the Supreme Court be reduced from nine to seven because the number seven has mystical power, we could ignore him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were all the after days when her hands, like birds, could feed upon the fields of him mystical plastic form--till then enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mystical democrats are rare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We still talk about humanity as if it were some strange and mystical creature which could not possibly be composed of the grocer, the street-car conductor and our aunts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mystical democrats believe that an election expresses the will of the people, and that that will is wise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Veronica