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Definition of Anagogy
1. n. Same as Anagoge.
Definition of Anagogy
1. Noun. The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anagogy
1. anagoge [n -GIES] - See also: anagoge
Medical Definition of Anagogy
1. Psychic content of an idealistic or spiritual nature. Origin: G. Anagoge, fr. An-ago, to lead up (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anagogy
Literary usage of Anagogy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"For these four ways of understanding, to wit, history, allegory, tropology,
anagogy, we call the four daughters of wisdom, who cannot fully be searched out ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1888)
"A large mass of the folio pages, densely crowded with homiletics under the heads
of allegory, anagogy, and the moralis sensus, would be at once swept aside ..."
3. A Text-book of the History of Doctrines by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1861)
"[Davidson, 1. cp 173 : History relates what is done ; allegory teaches what is
to be understood ; anagogy what is to be sought; tropology what is to be done ..."
4. A Text Book of the History of Doctrines by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1867)
"[Davidson, 1. cp 173 : History relates what is dono ; allegory teaches what is
to be understood ; anagogy what is to be sought ; tropology what is to be ..."
5. The Art of Preaching in the Light of Its History by Edwin Charles Dargan (1922)
"... comparative, superlative; (6) use of figures of speech; (7) use of allegory,
tropology, anagogy; (8) setting forth of causes and effects. ..."
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