Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of one of several international organizations such as the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, devoted to the study of ancient mystical, philosophical, and religious doctrines and concerned with the application of these doctrines to modern life.
- noun A member of any of several secret organizations or orders of the 1600s and 1700s concerned with the study of religious mysticism and professing esoteric religious beliefs.
- adjective Of or relating to Rosicrucians or their philosophy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a supposed secret society, said to have originated in the fifteenth century, which combined pretensions to the possession of occult wisdom and gifts with so-called mysteries of physic, astronomy, alchemy, etc.
- Pertaining to the Rosicrucians or their arts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
- noun One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A 'Brother' of the 'Order of the Rose Cross'; a member of the Rosicrucian Order.
- noun A member of certain modern groups or organizations formed for the study of
Rosicrucianism and allied subjects. - adjective of teachings
mystic ,occult oresoteric and related to the philosophy of Rosicrucianism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society
- adjective of or relating to the Rosicrucians
- noun a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Miss Vaughan and her paternal uncle are the last descendants of the alchemist Thomas Vaughan, whom she terms a Rosicrucian, and identifies with Eirenæus Philalethes, author of "The Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King."
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899
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Fludd was reputed to be a man of piety and great learning, and was an adept in the so-called Rosicrucian philosophy.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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Dat vich ye call a Rosicrucian by any other name vil smell as sveet.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Dat vich ve call a Rosicrucian by any other name vil smell as sveet.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Today for the first time, I noticed that there are several times throughout the movie where the word "Rosicrucian" is displayed on the screen.
secret-blue Diary Entry secret-blue 2009
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I have read to the last line of your 'Rosicrucian'; and my scepticism grew and grew through Hume's process of doubtful doubts, and at last rose to the full stature of incredulity ... for I never could believe Shelley capable of such a book (call it a book!), not even with a flood of boarding-school idiocy dashed in by way of dilution.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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And unless the 'Rosicrucian' went into more editions than one, and dates here from a later one, ... which is not ascertainable from this fragment of a titlepage, ... the innocence of the great poet stands proved -- now doesn't it?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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I have read to the last line of your 'Rosicrucian'; and my scepticism grew and grew through Hume's process of doubtful doubts, and at last rose to the full stature of incredulity ... for I never could believe
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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And unless the 'Rosicrucian' went into more editions than one, and dates here from a later one, ... which is not ascertainable from this fragment of a titlepage, ... the innocence of the great poet stands proved ” now doesn't it?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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As Rosicrucian scholar and alchemist Paracelsus states: Heaven is man and man is heaven ...
Josh Schrei: The Crucible Gone Cold: Modern Yoga, Christianity, and the Practice of Individual Transformation Josh Schrei 2010
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