mystic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to religious mysteries or occult rites and practices.
  2. adjective Of or relating to mysticism or mystics.
  3. adjective Inspiring a sense of mystery and wonder.

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  • Before I leave your camp you will have been my lover--mystic, aesthetic, dreamer, drifter Never!" —  There was a King in Egypt
  • If Boethius was attracted to them it was probably exactly as any one is naturally attracted to the bizarre or the mystic, and he would have mentioned them in his works only incidentally, as indeed they are mentioned in the manuscripts in which they occur In answer therefore to the second question, Could Boethius have known the Hindu numerals? —  The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • The visions of the mystic, the prophecies of the seer, the inspiration of the sibyl, all come through this Unconscious Soul. —  Real Ghost Stories
  • She was a Roman Catholic mystic, and we are Evangelical Protestants. —  Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings
  • At the court, the king, who was in many ways what might be termed a mystic voluptuary, spent his time in alternate fits of dissipation and devotion, wasted his time in gallantry, and neglected his royal duties; and the all-powerful Lerma was the centre of a world of graft, where the highest offices in the land were bartered for gold, and every noble had an itching palm. —  Women of the Romance Countries
 

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mystical ·  sacred ·  magical ·  heavenly ·  inner ·  prophetic ·  sublime ·  oriental

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mystic:   mystics
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English mystik, from Latin mysticus, from Greek mustikos, from mustēs, initiate; see mystery1.

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  1. Formerly also mistick, mystick; from French mystique = Spanish místico = Portuguese mystico =Italian mistico, from Latin mysticus, Greek μυστικός, secret, mystic, from μύστης, one who is initiated: see mystery.
 

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