Mystic
adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who practices mysticism.
- 2 someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension wordnet
- 1 Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
"a mystic dance"
- 2 Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
"Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?"
- 1 having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding wordnet
- 2 relating to or characteristic of mysticism wordnet
- 3 relating to or resembling mysticism wordnet
- 1 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Nevada County, California.
- 2 A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Routt County, Colorado.
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A village and census-designated place in New London County, Connecticut.
"Mystic’s maritime history dates to its days as a shipbuilding center, a time well preserved at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the world’s leading and largest of its kind, home to the famed 1800s whaleship, Charles W. Morgan."
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Appanoose County, Iowa.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota.
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More examples"Alice! a childish story take, / And with a gentle hand / Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined / In Memory's mystic band, / Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers / Pluck'd in a far-off land."
Etymology
From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”). Doublet of mystique.