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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both men were secular mystics who chose to canonise their own tastes. ▪ Feminist scholars popularized the writings of medieval mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen. ▪ Study of these meditations therefore ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mystic \Mys"tic\, n. One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "spiritually allegorical, pertaining to mysteries of faith," from Old French mistique "mysterious, full of mystery" (14c.), or directly from Latin mysticus "mystical, mystic, of secret rites" (source also of Italian mistico , Spanish mistico ...

Usage examples of mystic.

His style, at once realistic and sublime, is distinctly akin to that of the great Anglican mystics Herbert and Vaughan.

Though in his technique he is almost free from symbolist influences, the general spirit of his poetry is much more akin to symbolism than to that of the younger school, for, alone of the younger poets, he is a mystic.

Logos, and it is perfected, after complete asceticism, by mystic ecstatic contemplation in which a man loses himself, but in return is entirely filled and moved by God.

For his estate was upon the western coast of that dark, mystic continent, that baffler of explorers--Africa.

For his estate was upon the western coast of that dark, mystic continent, that baffler of explorers-- Africa.

To his delighted surprise the woman, whose name was Edith, seemed keen to talk, first about Baudelaire and then about anything at all, and by the time the express reached Mystic, Connecticut, which was about halfway to Grand Central Station, Chub thought he himself was probably halfway to paradise.

The cocks and the cicalas make themselves heard, and now Madame Prune will begin her mystic drone.

But between the real but obscure knowledge of the mystic and the clear but unreal knowledge of the verbalist, lies the clearish and realish knowledge of the naturalist and the man of science.

After breakfast was over I told him in a serious voice that if he would give me a free hand I could cure him, as he was not suffering from sciatica but from a moist and windy humour which I could disperse my means of the Talisman of Solomon and five mystic words.

Then he suddenly remembered what the Monk and Mystic, Heliobas, had said to him at Dariel on the morning after his trance of soul-liberty: .

In my case, diabetes was the oracle that alerted me to these mystic possibilities.

To heighten the effect of my mystic exhortation I dosed him heavily with wine, and did not let him go till he had fallen into a drunken sleep.

In the works even of those mystics who efface the limits between things human and divine, who put Judaism, Christianity, and Paganism on the same line with the revelation of Mohammed, and who are therefore duly anathematized by the whole orthodox world, almost every page testifies to the relation of the ideas enounced with Mohammedan civilization.

The necessity of virtue, the dread ordeals of the grave, the certainty of retribution, the mystic circuits of transmigration, a glorious immortality, the paths of planets and gods and souls through creation, all were impressively enounced, dramatically shown.

Joe thought back to that morning, when he had stuck his head out into the day and felt as powerful as the Escapist, surging with the mystic Tibetan energies of his rage.