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Definition of Adepts
1. adept [n] - See also: adept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adepts
Literary usage of Adepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism by Barruel, Robert Clifford (1799)
"A few Remarks on and tt Li/1 of the principal adepts. ... and it was clear that
the adepts had taken every precaution to put theirs beyond the power of the ..."
2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"These four adepts are chosen to appear in these pages with good reason. They are
the first in post-Christian adeptship—as recorded in profane and sacred ..."
3. The Occult World by Alfred Percy Sinnett (1886)
"OCCULTISM AND ITS adepts. The powers with which occultism invests its adepts
include, to begin with, a control over various forces in Nature which ordinary ..."
4. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (2001)
"Inferior adepts of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Many other pretenders
to the secrets of the philosopher's stone appeared in every country in ..."
5. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... and Excellence of their Blankets — The Apaches—Canoes of Bark — adepts at
Carving—. The Making and Ornamentation of Pipes — Bead-work, Paint, Feathers, ..."
6. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1891)
"The adepts of Eastern magic are uniformly in perfect mental and bodily health,
and in fact the voluntary and independent production of phenomena is ..."
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