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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to religious mysteries or occult rites and practices.
  2. adj. Of or relating to mysticism or mystics.
  3. adj. Inspiring a sense of mystery and wonder.
  4. adj. Mysterious; strange.
  5. adj. Enigmatic; obscure.
  6. adj. Mystical.
  7. n. One who practices or believes in mysticism or a given form of mysticism: Protestant mystics.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to any of the ancient mysteries.
  2. Hidden from or obscure to human knowledge or comprehension: pertaining to what is obscure or incomprehensible; mysterious; dark; obscure; specifically, expressing a sense comprehensible only to a higher grade of intelligence or to those especially initiated.
  3. Of or pertaining to mystics or mysticism.
  4. In the civil law of Louisiana, sealed or closed: as, a Mystic testament
  5. Synonyms and Cabalistic, etc. See mysterious.
  6. n. One who accepts or preaches some form of mysticism; specifically [capitalized], one who holds to the possibility of direct conscious and unmistakable intercourse with God by a species of ecstasy. See Quietist, Pietist, Gichtelian.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
  2. adj. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
  3. n. Someone who practices mysticism.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
  2. adj. Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical.
  3. adj. employing mysticism; ; -- contrasted to logical, rational, analytical.
  4. n. One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See mysticism.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  2. adj. relating to or characteristic of mysticism
  3. n. someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
  4. adj. relating to or resembling mysticism

Etymologies

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

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