Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who presides over mysteries.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete One who rules over mysteries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One presiding over mysteries.
Examples
“The mysteriarch stood solemnly next to the structure.”
“Yet after Collins and Houdini had perfected it and it had been copyrighted, the mysteriarch waited almost a year and a half to perform it as part of his show.”
“Stephen said nothing; the last thing he wanted to do was argue with a mysteriarch.”
“The mysteriarch, Iridal, returned to the High Realms.”
“The initial shock was receding; the mysteriarch was beginning to realize that her dearest wish was coming true.”
“He took hold of Peter's arm, hoisted the man from his chair, led him-bowing and staggering-past king and queen and mysteriarch.”
“King Stephen was powerless to fight the mysteriarch.”
“She intended to do so, in league with this mysteriarch, Sinistrad'the boy's father.”
“The mysteriarch had disturbed his Abbey with her imperious demands, caused a stir among the brethren, brought too much of the world of the living into one devoted to the dead.”
“The mysteriarch has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the Unseen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mysteriarch’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Your Grandfather's Bad Old World
chicanery, ballyhoo, thaumaturgy, inveigle, wheedle, buncombe, balderdash, twaddle, fustian, lexiphanic, obstreperous, autochthonous and 1 more...
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....the prison library
// god mandated attempt to realign with the timeless forces of the universe via remastered locution //
desultory, dénouement, demesne, dalliance, chatoyant, antechamber, akimbo, cacography, germane, cuboid, miasma, mordant and 89 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Arcana
Cool olde words
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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Words to remember
adventive, affectation, ambiguous, anachronism, anesis, antithetic, apostasy, attenuate, authenticity, autodidact, -fic, bandolier and 146 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Verbiage
enfleurage, mysteriarch, chantepleure, mellifluous, inkhorn, bergamot, prestidigitation, legerdemain, mortmain, lomcevak, pilbroch, pilbrooch and 17 more...
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Setting the Scene: Magic and Mystery
Words that lend to the atmosphere of magic and mystery in fantasy literature.
magic, mystery, mystical, oracle, sibylline, ethereal, wish, star, moon, moonlight, witch, wizard and 51 more...
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