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epopt|ˈɛpɒpt|
[ad. late L. epopta, ad. Gr. ἐπόπτης, agent-n. f. ἐποπ- (f. ἐπί upon + root ὀπ- to see), serving as the base of certain tenses of ἐϕοράειν to look upon, behold.]
A ‘beholder’; in Gr. Antiq. a person fully initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries. Also transf.
1696Toland Christianity not Myst. 167 The right of seeing every thing, or being Epopts. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 552 Those..who obtained the insight of these revelations, called themselves Epopts, Seers, or the Initiated. 1833Brit. Mag. III. 48 That which has made us in some sort epopts of those mysteries which are between this world and the next. 1850Grote Greece ii. lviii. (1862) V. 183 Addressing his companions as Mysts and Epopts.
Hence eˈpoptic a, of or pertaining to an epopt. epoptics n. pl., eˈpoptist = epopt.
1770Langhorne Plutarch's Lives, Alexander (ed. Tegg) 467 Those more secret and profound branches of science, which they call acroamatic and epoptic. 1711tr. Werenfel's Disc. Logom. 99 Aristotle's Books of deep Learning, his Acroamaticks, Esotericks, Epopticks, and mysterious Writings. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 10 Hidden mysteries in divine truth..which cannot be discerned but only by divine Epoptists. |