anagogic

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n. - spiritual exaltation; mystical interpretation of sacred works such as the Bible. anagogic (al), anagogig adj. - relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; gnostic n. - selected parts of a literary work or works

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  1. Same as anagogical.
  2. A mystical or spiritual interpretation, especially of Scripture. The notes upon that constitution say, that the Misna Torah was composed out of the cabalistics and anagogics of the Jews, or some allegorical interpretations pretended to be derived from Moses. L. Addison, State of the Jews, p. 248.

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  • n. - spiritual exaltation; mystical interpretation of sacred works such as the Bible. anagogic (al), anagogig adj. - relating to things spiritual and mystical; occult; gnostic n. - selected parts of a literary work or works —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic. —  Witch-Doctors
  • We find it, for instance, in the criticism of Virgil, to whose work were attributed four distinct meanings: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogic. —  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
 

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  1. from Greek ἀναγωγικός, mystical, from ἀναγωγή: see anagoge.
 

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