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▪ I. myst|mɪst| [ad. L. mysta, mystēs (see mystes). Cf. F. myste (Rabelais).] A priest of the mysteries; one who is initiated into mysteries.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlviii. 385 Those Mysts and Flamens. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxv. (1862) V. 589 Kleokritus—herald of the Mysts or communicants in the Eleusinian mysteries. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 15 The disciple admitted to these was a philosophical myst, or mystic. ▪ II. myst obs. f. might (see may v.1 2 b note); obs. f. mist, most; see myse. |