2. Noun. (''in Greek and Roman religion'') a number of secret societies or cults ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mysteries
1. mystery [n] - See also: mystery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mysteries
Literary usage of Mysteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"These mysteries were divided into the less and the greater, ... Only Athenians
were admitted to these mysteries : but of them each sex, age, and condition, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The most important Greek mysteries were (1) the Eleusinian; ... These latter
mysteries were of so licentious a character that they were first forbidden in ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"''':f/: A*TI A Dissertation on the Pageants, or Dramatic Mysteries, anciently
performed at Coventry, by the Trading Companies of that City; chiefly with ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"Our European exhibitions, perhaps as rude in their commencement, were likewise
for a long time devoted to pious purposes, under the titles of Mysteries and ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"As these ceremonies were performed in the depth of caverns, and in the silence
of the night, and as the inviolable secret of the mysteries was preserved by ..."
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