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adjective

Mystical, Mystic adj.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. "Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man." "God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural."

Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon. "Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body."

Employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical explanations; contrasted to logical, rational, analytical.

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Etymology of 'Mystical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mystical" Quotes from Famous Books

... endowment of light and lustre simply, and the mystical curve of the lids. For so they could look only because the heart was disengaged from them. They were but ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... mystical bear-gardens, Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, And other members of the court, Manage the Babylonish sport. 1852 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., ...

— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various

... fingers. The first auditor whom Messire Miles d'Isliers, doctor in decretals, saw arrive every Monday morning, all breathless, at the opening of the gates of the school of the Chef-Saint-Denis, was Claude Frollo. Thus, at sixteen years of age, the young clerk might have held his own, in mystical theology, against a father of the church; in canonical theology, against a father of the councils; in scholastic theology, against ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... disintegration of the house itself, through what is called "dry rot," but is paradoxically the result of dampness. Edgar Allan Poe, in his weird story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," has given a mystical interpretation of the dissolution of an old homestead which really has a scientific explanation that might be found ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... the same conclusions as myself, after having attacked me, though not so fiercely, as Mr. Romanes has done. In 1879 he said in the Examiner (May 17) that the teleological view put forward in Evolution, Old and New, was "just the sort of mystical nonsense from which" he "had hoped Mr. Darwin had for ever saved us." And so in the Academy on the same day he said that no "one-sided argument" (referring to Evolution, Old and New) could ever deprive Mr. Darwin of the "place ...

— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler

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