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mystagogy|ˈmɪstəgɒdʒɪ|
[ad. L. mystagōgi-a, a. Gr. µυσταγωγία, f. µυσταγωγός mystagogue.]
Initiation, or instruction preparatory to initiation into mysteries.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 399 He [sc. Gregory Nazianzen] calleth it [the sacrament]..a holy and heauenly mystagogie. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 172 He was so bold also to institute an obscene Mystagogy. 1876R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. 11 note, All theology among the Greeks is the outbirth of the Orphic Mystagogy. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1602 Mystagogy..is applied..in the Greek Church, to the sacraments. |