mystificatory

Exposing what is for any reason concealed becomes an end in itself, because the underlying reason for all concealment is bound to be corrupt and mystificatory.

The Media: Public Interest and Common Good: lecture delivered at Lambeth Palace 2005

More specifically, comparative philology derived its strength from the belief that the languages of South Asia in particular were a mystificatory veil, one that obfuscated the texts, transactions, and even people behind it, and one that blocked the entry of western languages and knowledge.

A Teleology of Letters; or, From a 2000

On the face of it, this sounds like an extraordinarily mystificatory and large-R Romantic thing for a composer to consider, and not at all the kind of word that a 21st-century artist of critical bent should be worried about.

NewMusicBox 2010