† mistiheadn.1
Obsolete.
Mystical significance; mystery; an instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun]
deepnessa1000
subtletya1387
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscurity1474
profoundnessc1475
obscureness1509
profundity1559
perplexity1563
opacity1575
darksomeness1583
perplexednessa1586
deptha1593
spinosity1605
abstruseness1628
abstrusity1649
inevidence1673
enigmaticalness1684
dark1699
indistinctness1704
confusion1729
reconditeness1779
obfuscity1832
oracularity1840
irrecognizability1847
recondity1856
unrecognizableness1865
crypticity1892
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > mystical significance
mistiheadc1425
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun]
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscureness1509
obscuritya1522
unclearness1574
unplainness1619
abstruseness1628
umbragec1642
abstrusity1649
imperspicuity1659
reconditeness1779
mistiness1816
crampness1840
recondity1856
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 7517 (MED) And sodeynly, with-oute wordis mo, Þe kyng Teutran ȝeldeþ vp þe gost..I can nat deme of swiche mystyhede.
c1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars 224 What meneth this? What is this mystihed?
1494 W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (de Worde) ii. xliii By mystyhed it is illumyned for to see þe werkes of Jhesu in holy chirche.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
† mistiheadn.2
Obsolete. rare.
Mistiness, obscurity.
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1532 Goodly Balade 33 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 406 Misty cloudes, that wolde overlede Trewe humble hertes with hir mistihede.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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