Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to anagoge; mysterious; elevated; spiritual.
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- adjective
anagogic
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- adjective based on or exemplifying anagoge
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Examples
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And ultimately, the mystical or sometimes called the "anagogical" level.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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And ultimately, the mystical or sometimes called the "anagogical" level.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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And ultimately, the mystical or sometimes called the "anagogical" level.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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Many are drawn deeply into his otherworldly, anagogical music, which synthesizes devout Catholicism; a guileless, naturalistic attitude rooted in his rural upbringing; and a rigorous formal training in harmony and counterpoint.
Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO Robert Battey 2010
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She was an anagogical writer, of that there is no doubt.
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Women wrote to their surgeons in admiration and awe, begging them not to spare their surgical extirpations, as if surgery were an anagogical ritual that would simultaneously rid them of cancer and uplift them into health.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Women wrote to their surgeons in admiration and awe, begging them not to spare their surgical extirpations, as if surgery were an anagogical ritual that would simultaneously rid them of cancer and uplift them into health.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Women wrote to their surgeons in admiration and awe, begging them not to spare their surgical extirpations, as if surgery were an anagogical ritual that would simultaneously rid them of cancer and uplift them into health.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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He screamed again, beat the yellow disk with his fists p. 427, italics in originalDavid experiences a confusing jumble of all the images that he has endowed with anagogical significance over the course of the novel.
Call It Sleep 2009
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He screamed again, beat the yellow disk with his fists p. 427, italics in originalDavid experiences a confusing jumble of all the images that he has endowed with anagogical significance over the course of the novel.
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