epopt

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Easy, therefore, in our thoughts, is the transition from the Cinder-wench in the ashes to the Cinderella of the palace; easy the apotheosis of the slave, and the passage from the weary earth to the fields of Elysium and the Isles of the Blessed This flight of the Imagination, this vision of Faith,--_these_, reader, are only for the epoptć_.

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  • Easy, therefore, in our thoughts, is the transition from the Cinder-wench in the ashes to the Cinderella of the palace; easy the apotheosis of the slave, and the passage from the weary earth to the fields of Elysium and the Isles of the Blessed This flight of the Imagination, this vision of Faith,--_these_, reader, are only for the epoptć_. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
  • When, for instance, he mentioned Haydn with that same warmth which made us so suspicious when he praised Lessing, and when he posed as the epopt and priest of a mysterious Haydn cult; when, in a discussion upon quartette-music, if you please, he even likened Haydn to a "good unpretending soup" and Beethoven to "sweetmeats" (p. 432); then, to our minds, one thing, and one thing alone, became certain--namely, that his Sweetmeat-Beethoven is not our Beethoven, and his Soup-Haydn is not our Haydn. —  Thoughts out of Season Part I
  • The third degree of Ancient Craft Masonry, analogous to the epopt of the ancient Mysteries. —  The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • The candidate, who had previously been called a _mystes_, or a _blind man_, from μίω, to _shut the eyes_, began at this point to change his title to that of an _epopt_, or an _eye-witness_. —  The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • "epopt and perfect," so far as their system takes him, and yet ignorant of the noble literature which has grown up in those islands during the last three centuries, no less than of the development of the philosophical and political ideas which have most profoundly influenced modern civilisation, is a fact in the history of the nineteenth century which the twentieth will find hard to believe; though, perhaps, it is not more incredible than our current superstition that whoso wishes to write and speak English well should mould his style after the models furnished by classical antiquity. —  Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
 

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  1. from New Latin epopta, from Greek ἐπόπτης, a watcher, spectator, one admitted to the third grade of the Eleusinian mysteries, from ἐπόψεσθαι, future associated ἐφορᾶν, look on, from ἐπί, on, + ὁρᾶν, future ὅψεσθαι, look, see.
 

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