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Definition of Anagogical
1. Adjective. Based on or exemplifying anagoge.
Definition of Anagogical
1. Adjective. anagogic ¹
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Definition of Anagogical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anagogical
Literary usage of Anagogical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"CHAPTER I ALLEGORICAL AND anagogical INTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE Impulse given to
the study of natural history by Alexander the Great—Scientific spirit ..."
2. Practical Handbook for the Study of the Bible and of Bible Literature by Michael Seisenberger (1911)
"The anagogical sense of a passage is the application that it allows to the future
life, over and above its obvious and immediate meaning ..."
3. The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith by William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831)
"Tropological and anagogical are terms of their own feigning, ... For tropological
is but an allegory of manners, and anagogical, an allegory of hope. ..."
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