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Definition of Mystic
1. Adjective. Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. "The secret learning of the ancients"
Similar to: Esoteric
Derivative terms: Mystery, Occult, Occult
2. Noun. Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension.
Specialized synonyms: Buddha, Gautama, Gautama Buddha, Gautama Siddhartha, Siddhartha, Chuang-tzu, Behmen, Boehm, Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Behmen, Jakob Boehm, Jakob Boehme, Jakob Bohme, Eckhart, Johannes Eckhart, Meister Eckhart
Generic synonyms: Believer, Worshiper, Worshipper
Specialized synonyms: Quietist
Derivative terms: Mystical, Mystical, Mystical
3. Adjective. Relating to or resembling mysticism. "Mystical theories about the securities market"
Partainyms: Mysticism, Mysticism
Derivative terms: Mysticism, Mysticism, Mysticism
4. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of mysticism. "Mystical religion"
Partainyms: Mysticism, Mysticism
Derivative terms: Mysticism, Mysticism, Mysticism
Definition of Mystic
1. a. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
2. n. One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Definition of Mystic
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical. ¹
2. Adjective. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic. ¹
3. Noun. Someone who practices mysticism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mystic
1. one who professes to have had mystical experiences [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mystic
Literary usage of Mystic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission (1885)
"mystic RIVER. By its act of incorporation, and by subsequent acts in amendment
and extension of its grants, the mystic River Corporation has been authorized ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In itself an obscure speculation, with the wildest form of mystic extravagance
as a result, ... It is the only great mystic movement in the Orthodox Church. ..."
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"For some writers a ' mystic ' is any person who believes in ... The mystic finds
that most of us accord to his experiences an equally incompetent treatment. ..."
4. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1913)
"THE mystic The walls, the very walls are woven of dreams, All undefined by blasphemies
... Here, pure from finite hues the very night Conceives the mystic ..."
5. State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of by George Chandler Whipple (1917)
"ABSTRACTS OF SPECIAL REPORTS 1889 Sewerage of the mystic and Charles River Valleys
Report of the State Board of Health upon the Sewerage of the mystic and ..."
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