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Definition of Esotery
1. n. Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery.
Definition of Esotery
1. Noun. (archaic) mystery; esoterics ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Esotery
1. secret doctrine [n ESOTERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esotery
Literary usage of Esotery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado of the Most Ancient and Honorable by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Colorado, Grand Lodge of Colorado, Freemasons (1898)
"We know of no Masonic writers who claim that the Masonic esotery was first
formulated In 1717. While there are many who believe that up to that time the ..."
2. English Literature in Account with Religion, 1800-1900 by Edward Mortimer Chapman (1910)
"I seem to be instructed in one of the mysteries of erotic esotery, ... He is
fascinated with the mystery of " erotic esotery," and of all English ..."
3. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... for that esotery, or mystery and secresy, with which the practitioner performs
his daily duties, and which, he conceives, he is compelled to adopt by ..."
4. Art Thoughts: The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe by James Jackson Jarves (1869)
"... intense esotery of feature, whether as to detail or entirety. And so we find
its mental roots strike down to heathen soil. But had it received no other ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1848)
"The esotery of ancient science and art has, in almost all departments of learning
and mechanics, been replaced by free instruction ; it is passing strange ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1886)
"... and its comprehensiveness is necessarily circumscribed. We are not in favour
of esotery in connexion with any science, far less in that of medicine ..."
7. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"This is simply one form of what may be called anatomic esotery. Now that the
choice is offered, the anatomist who deliberately says aponeurosis for fascia, ..."
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