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mystically

Word definitions for mystically in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a mystical manner; "chant mystically"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mystic \Mys"tic\, Mystical \Mys"tic*al\, a. [L. mysticus, Gr. ? belonging to secret rites, from ? one initiated: cf. F. mystique. See 1st Mystery , Misty .] Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. in a mystical manner

Usage examples of mystically.

Often mists from the Elbe rose mystically to engarland the crenelated castles here and there on the heights.

Father had worked on Lincoln in private, using the Jackson precedents, and Monty had himself worked on Lincoln in Cabinet, stressing his duty never to give up federal authority anywhere, an idea to which the new Chief Executive, happily for the Union, seemed almost mystically attached.

My nursery window afforded a view of the great fountains at the head of the upper basin, and on moonlight nights the Welshwoman would hold me up to the glass, and bid me look at the mist and spray rising into mysterious shapes, moving mystically in the white light like living things.

It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

A general theme running throughout the Idealist writersand indeed, a theme found in virtually all of the mystically or contemplatively oriented philosopher-sages the world overis that finite things, finite holons, are somehow profoundly lacking, or even profoundly contradictory, in and of themselves.

The tall chair of mystically graven gold and ebony, in which the mummy should have sat crowned and robed as in life, was addorsed against the farther wall on a low dais.

It was the kind of scene in which Lily had often pictured herself as taking the principal part, and on this occasion the fact that she was once more merely a casual spectator, instead of the mystically veiled figure occupying the centre of attention, strengthened her resolve to assume the latter part before the year was over.

Emerald green it was, and mystically inviting, as if sprites and faeries had lent a hand to its creation.

You see, its based on a false premise, namely that the mind is somehow mystically apart from the material body.

You see, it's based on a false premise, namely that the mind is somehow mystically apart from the material body.

Although no-one actually heard it, the signal echoed mystically about the saloon bar, halting the singers and drinkers and talkers and revellers in mid-swing and silencing them to a man.