mysticaladj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪstᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˈmɪstək(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1700s mistical, late Middle English mystecall (in a late copy), late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1600s mysticall, late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1700s misticall, 1500s mistical, 1500s mistycall, 1500s mystecal, 1500s mystycal, 1500s mystycall, 1500s– mystical; Scottish pre-1700 mistical, pre-1700 misticall, pre-1700 mysticall, pre-1700 1700s– mystical.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mystic adj., -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < mystic adj. + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix.In quot. 1516 at sense 2a the sense may be rather ‘imparting obscurity’ than ‘imbued with obscurity’, perhaps suggesting an independent derivation < mist n.² + -ical suffix; compare mistily adv.¹, misty adj.² and discussion s.vv.

1. Theology.

a. Having a spiritual character or significance by virtue of a connection or union with God which transcends human understanding.Frequently applied spec. to things regarded as representing or being in union with the body of Christ, as the Christian Church, the bread of the Eucharist, etc.

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a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xi. sig. d.ii By dyuers brute beestes..Our lorde hath shewed, secretes mystycall To his electe persones.

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Biii Howe there is a spyrituall And a mysteriall And a mysticall Effecte Energiall.

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxiv^v Chrystys mystycall body y^t ys hys church.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxxii We be very membres incorporate in thy Misticall bodye.

1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. F.ii^v The mystycall or sacramentall breade.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 177 A true..participation of Christ, who thereby imparteth himselfe..as a misticall head vnto euerye soule that receiueth him.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 17 Approach, and taste The churches mysticall repast.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 77 in Justice Vindicated These two individual persons, by the law of God, are made one mystical person, of which the husband is head.

1747 J. Edwards True Saints vi The believer becomes..a member of Christ's mystical body.

1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iii. ii. 232 Christ..signified his unition of his people into one mystical body with himself.

1844 N. Brit. Rev. 1 153 The demonologic contest, in which the Evil One is..driven off by the mystical artillery of the priest.

1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 165 They eat the mystical supper.

1890 W. Stubbs Primary Charge 55 They are the very crowning of the sin of schism, the forcible rending of the mystical body of the Lord.

1910 Catholic Encycl. VII. 715/2 The mystical body of Christ is the Church, whereof Christ is the Head.

1991 A. Hasting et al. Mod. Catholicism (BNC) 24 Among these doctrines was one that Pius had made particularly his own, the notion of the mystical body of Christ..firmly identifying the Roman Catholic Church with the body of Christ.

b. Relating to or designating a hidden, symbolic, or spiritual meaning (or some aspect of this) underlying the literal meaning of a passage of Scripture. Cf. allegorical adj., anagogical adj., tropological adj.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [adjective] > mystical

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1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 4^v Leest he wolde lene all togyder to the litteral sense of scripture, and not to y^e spiritual or mistical sense.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 59^v Some do vse after the literal sense to gather a misticall understandyng.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 69^v The holy Scripture dooth teache a more hygher and mysticall [L. reconditam] consyderation.

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vi. 34 The Disputer. He insisted upon allegories, and searched out mysticall interpretations of the Text.

a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 59 I profess not my self either skilled, or delighted, in Mystical Interpretations of Scripture.

1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 429 In its retired, mystical meaning, it figured out the Spiritual Covenant.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Anagogy A mystical meaning applied to the language of Scripture.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 620 S. Jerome gives here the mystical meaning.

1907 Catholic Encycl. II. 652/2 It is an exaggeration to say that Bonaventure had regard only to the mystical sense of Scripture.

1997 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Q. Summer 24/3 Chapter one incorrectly subverts the centrality of the moral interpretation over the mystical in exegesis.

c. Spiritually allegorical or symbolic.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [adjective] > spiritually allegorical or symbolical

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1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 160/2 The misticall gestures and seremonies vsed in the masse.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. p. xvi The nombre of thre, whiche of all other is most..mystycall.

a1555 L. Saunders in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 204 Though he stand behynd the wal and hyde himselfe (as Salomon saieth in his mystical ballade).

1607 (?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 173 Dauid..prophesied that kinges from Tharsis and Araby with misticall giftes shall come and present that Lord.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 12 To make up the rotundity of so sacred, and mystical a number.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. Concl. 113 'Tis plain to me in the Apocalypse, that Mystical Babylon is to be consum'd by fire.

1861 E. Garbett Bible & Critics i. 32 The mystical horseman in the Apocalypse.

1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 176/2 ‘Taking the veil’ is dramatised and the new-comer is tuned up for her mystical marriage with Christ.

1989 B. Vickers Returning to Shakespeare 77 Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds [sc. the phoenix and the turtle] on an emblematic, almost mystical level.

a. More generally: mysterious, enigmatic, obscure, esoteric; of hidden meaning or nature; having an unknown or mysterious origin or influence. Cf. mystic n. 2.

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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective]

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > of persons

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1516 tr. Kalender of Shepeherdes (new ed.) sig. Ti^v You blynde folke derked in the clowde Of ygnoraunt fumes thycke and mystycall.

1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte in Poet. Wks. (1856) II. 304 Vpon this matter mistycall I haue tolde you part, but nat all.

1534 (?a1500) Shearmen & Taylors' Pageant 341 in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1931) 12 (MED) I desyre to knoo, Yff hytt wolde pleyse you forto schoo, Of whatt maner a thyng. I. Profeta. Were mystecall vnto youre heryng, Of the natevete off a kyng.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. *4^v Least the matters which in some cases are misticall enough of themselues by reason of their owne profoundnesse, might haue bene made more obscure.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 132 The sentences of this contracte in Marmor war hewin, in Hieroglyphical or mistical lettiris.

1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 21 While they mature..such their mysticall and pernicious designes.

1652 (?1476) Ripley's Pref. to Medulla in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Brit. 392 Try and discerne within your hearte, By all the Lessons misticall.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. §6 Their Hieroglyphical and mystical Learning hath made the greatest noise in the world, and hath the least of substance in it.

1727 S. Shuckford Hist. World I. Pref. p. l Instead of supporting them with Reason and Argument, they had them expressed in mystical Sentences.

1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 104 [He] has not only traduc'd us, but made the whole affair so dark and mystical, that [etc.].

1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxxiv Struck with the mystical fragments of speech she had bestowed on him.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. i. 19 I would..we had that mystical needle which mariners talk of.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. x. i. 35 That illness had been both preceded and followed by mystical presentiments of the evil days that were to fall on England.

1912 J. Conrad Secret Sharer ii, in 'Twixt Land & Sea 132 His obscure tenacity on that point had in it something incomprehensible and a little awful; something, as it were, mystical.

1977 J. Monaco How to read Film ii. 86 The Golden Section of classical art and architecture, a truly mystical number expressive of a ratio found everywhere in nature, often in the strangest places.

†b. Of a person: obscure in speech, mysterious in behaviour; versed or apparently initiated in occult or esoteric knowledge. Obsolete.

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1604 A. Scoloker Daiphantus Ded. sig. A2^v If I seeme misticall, or tyrannicall, whether I be a Foole or a Lord's-Ingle.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 18 Such mysticall Mist-all and Misse-all Interpreters.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §96 A Physitian, that would be Mysticall, prescribeth, for the Cure of the Rheume, that a Man should walk Continually upon a Camomill-alley; Meaning, that he should put Camomill within his Socks.

1652 Ripley's Epist. Edward IV in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 111 Though I dare not here plainly the knot unbinde, Yet in my writeing I wyll not be so Mysticall But that ye may by studie the knowleige finde.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 1 As also the whole Band of the Chymists, both mystical and vulgar, do sufficiently testifie.

1698 tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Maxims of Saints 110 But these two things had only their Origin from Scholastick Philosophy, whereof these Mystical Men were preconceited.

3. Relating to or dealing with spiritual or transcendental matters, esp. communion of the soul with God or some higher spiritual power; concerned with spiritual mystery, religious awe, etc. Also: relating to or characteristic of mystics or mysticism. Cf. mystic adj. 5, mystical theology n. at Compounds.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [adjective]

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 223^v The same beeyng unfolded & spred abrode shewed some high mysticall mater.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 179 His soul imployed in mysticall meditations.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 22 He held his Talent most Adroyt For any Mystical Exploit.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Suppl. to Hist. Own Time (1902) ii. 473 With my ascetick course of life I joined the reading all the Misticall Authors I could find; in particular all Teresa's works.

1788 T. Taylor Life Proclus in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 19 By the highest and most mystical step, he ascended to the greatest and most consummate or telestic virtues.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 352 The mystical Pythagoras, and the allegorising Plato.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 129/2 The intuition or ecstasy or mystical swoon which appears alike among the Hindus, the Neo-Platonists, and the mediæval saints.

1904 J. R. Illingworth Christian Char. ix. 182 Both [St Paul and St John] were men the basis of whose life was profoundly mystical.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 466/1 Alabaster's other cabalistic writings are Commentarius de Bestia Apocalyptica (1621) and Spiraculum tubarum..(1633), a mystical interpretation of the Pentateuch.

1988 A. Storr School of Genius iii. 37 A mystical experience of unity with the universe which is familiar to those who have read similar accounts.

4. Of or relating to mysterious or occult rites or practices. Cf. mystic n. 3. Also in extended use.

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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > related to practices

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > a mystery > [adjective]

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1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vi. sig. Ii.v^v/2 Their mysticall apparaile, & their sundrie offices.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 26 Too you for wytnesse do I cal: you mystical altars.

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 272 This strange, mysticall, or mysterificall manner of sacrifice.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 620 Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles Resembles nearest.

1740 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) II. 74 The court and army, danced what they called a mystical dance.

1791 M. De Fleury Summer Day's Excursion in Divine Poems & Ess. 192 The great designs of Jehovah were revealed at first in dark sayings, mystical ceremonies, types so enveloped with clouds, that nothing but the eye of faith could penetrate them.

1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

1869 F. W. Newman Misc. 192 Their smell when burnt, and the mystical cloud of smoke, were universally esteemed.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 69/2 The Gnostic physician Serenus Sammonicus gave precise instructions as to its [sc. the word ‘abracadabra’'s] mystical use in averting or curing agues and fevers generally.

1962 Guardian 3 Nov. 6/6 The mystical ceremony of ‘topping out’ was performed this morning on the domed roof of the new Smithfield Market.

1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 136 Then came disco, a decade of simulated humping, faceless bodies writhing in a mystical tribal rite.

†5. Secret, concealed; unconfessed. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective]

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1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 294 I wald gretumlie comunicat to ȝour grace ane hid and misticall secreit.

1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) ii. ii. 32 Confesse thow misticall Pandaress.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 38 This is the State of the External and Apparent Government of Ireland... But the Internal and Mystical Government of Ireland is thus.

Compounds

mystical theology n. the branch of theology that deals with the attainment of direct communion of the soul with God.

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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 572 So many are the interpretations in their mysticall Theologie, that Truth must needs be absent, which is but One.

1844 W. G. Ward Ideal Christian Church 326 Mystical theology is the ascetic theology of those, who are unusually advanced in the Christian course, and leading a life of unearthly and noble sanctity.

1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iii. 93 This alchemical corpuscular theory was able to coexist with an increasingly evident overlay of hylozoism and mystical theology.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mystical
释义	mysticaladj. Brit. /ˈmɪstᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈmɪstək(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1700s mistical, late Middle English mystecall (in a late copy), late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1600s mysticall, late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1700s misticall, 1500s mistical, 1500s mistycall, 1500s mystecal, 1500s mystycal, 1500s mystycall, 1500s– mystical; Scottish pre-1700 mistical, pre-1700 misticall, pre-1700 mysticall, pre-1700 1700s– mystical. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mystic adj., -al suffix¹. Etymology: < mystic adj. + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix.In quot. 1516 at sense 2a the sense may be rather ‘imparting obscurity’ than ‘imbued with obscurity’, perhaps suggesting an independent derivation < mist n.² + -ical suffix; compare mistily adv.¹, misty adj.² and discussion s.vv. 1. Theology. a. Having a spiritual character or significance by virtue of a connection or union with God which transcends human understanding.Frequently applied spec. to things regarded as representing or being in union with the body of Christ, as the Christian Church, the bread of the Eucharist, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [adjective] mistya1382 mystica1382 anagogicc1395 mysterial?a1425 mysticala1513 mysterious1624 gnostic1800 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xi. sig. d.ii By dyuers brute beestes..Our lorde hath shewed, secretes mystycall To his electe persones. 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Biii Howe there is a spyrituall And a mysteriall And a mysticall Effecte Energiall. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxiv^v Chrystys mystycall body y^t ys hys church. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxxii We be very membres incorporate in thy Misticall bodye. 1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. F.ii^v The mystycall or sacramentall breade. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 177 A true..participation of Christ, who thereby imparteth himselfe..as a misticall head vnto euerye soule that receiueth him. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 17 Approach, and taste The churches mysticall repast. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 77 in Justice Vindicated These two individual persons, by the law of God, are made one mystical person, of which the husband is head. 1747 J. Edwards True Saints vi The believer becomes..a member of Christ's mystical body. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iii. ii. 232 Christ..signified his unition of his people into one mystical body with himself. 1844 N. Brit. Rev. 1 153 The demonologic contest, in which the Evil One is..driven off by the mystical artillery of the priest. 1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 165 They eat the mystical supper. 1890 W. Stubbs Primary Charge 55 They are the very crowning of the sin of schism, the forcible rending of the mystical body of the Lord. 1910 Catholic Encycl. VII. 715/2 The mystical body of Christ is the Church, whereof Christ is the Head. 1991 A. Hasting et al. Mod. Catholicism (BNC) 24 Among these doctrines was one that Pius had made particularly his own, the notion of the mystical body of Christ..firmly identifying the Roman Catholic Church with the body of Christ. b. Relating to or designating a hidden, symbolic, or spiritual meaning (or some aspect of this) underlying the literal meaning of a passage of Scripture. Cf. allegorical adj., anagogical adj., tropological adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [adjective] > mystical mystical1526 anagogical1528 1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 4^v Leest he wolde lene all togyder to the litteral sense of scripture, and not to y^e spiritual or mistical sense. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 59^v Some do vse after the literal sense to gather a misticall understandyng. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 69^v The holy Scripture dooth teache a more hygher and mysticall [L. reconditam] consyderation. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vi. 34 The Disputer. He insisted upon allegories, and searched out mysticall interpretations of the Text. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 59 I profess not my self either skilled, or delighted, in Mystical Interpretations of Scripture. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 429 In its retired, mystical meaning, it figured out the Spiritual Covenant. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. at Anagogy A mystical meaning applied to the language of Scripture. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 620 S. Jerome gives here the mystical meaning. 1907 Catholic Encycl. II. 652/2 It is an exaggeration to say that Bonaventure had regard only to the mystical sense of Scripture. 1997 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Q. Summer 24/3 Chapter one incorrectly subverts the centrality of the moral interpretation over the mystical in exegesis. c. Spiritually allegorical or symbolic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [adjective] > spiritually allegorical or symbolical mystical1529 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 160/2 The misticall gestures and seremonies vsed in the masse. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. p. xvi The nombre of thre, whiche of all other is most..mystycall. a1555 L. Saunders in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 204 Though he stand behynd the wal and hyde himselfe (as Salomon saieth in his mystical ballade). 1607 (?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 173 Dauid..prophesied that kinges from Tharsis and Araby with misticall giftes shall come and present that Lord. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 12 To make up the rotundity of so sacred, and mystical a number. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. Concl. 113 'Tis plain to me in the Apocalypse, that Mystical Babylon is to be consum'd by fire. 1861 E. Garbett Bible & Critics i. 32 The mystical horseman in the Apocalypse. 1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 176/2 ‘Taking the veil’ is dramatised and the new-comer is tuned up for her mystical marriage with Christ. 1989 B. Vickers Returning to Shakespeare 77 Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds [sc. the phoenix and the turtle] on an emblematic, almost mystical level. 2. a. More generally: mysterious, enigmatic, obscure, esoteric; of hidden meaning or nature; having an unknown or mysterious origin or influence. Cf. mystic n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] curiousc1384 mystical1516 cabbalisticala1593 occult1593 hermetical1605 cabbalistic1625 hermetica1637 adeptical1662 trismegistic1678 trismegistical1678 trismegistian1694 Sibylline1817 Sibyllica1849 occultist1893 widdershins1926 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] secrec1386 mystica1398 mystical1516 dark1532 arcane1547 occulta1549 shadowish1561 abstruse1576 cryptical1588 shrouded (also involved, wrapped) in mysterya1616 mysterious1622 mysterial1630 cryptica1638 researched1653 rarefied1662 arcanalc1828 sphinx-like1837 sphinxine1845 abstrusive1848 Sphingine1925 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > of persons mystical1516 recondite1788 1516 tr. Kalender of Shepeherdes (new ed.) sig. Ti^v You blynde folke derked in the clowde Of ygnoraunt fumes thycke and mystycall. 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte in Poet. Wks. (1856) II. 304 Vpon this matter mistycall I haue tolde you part, but nat all. 1534 (?a1500) Shearmen & Taylors' Pageant 341 in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1931) 12 (MED) I desyre to knoo, Yff hytt wolde pleyse you forto schoo, Of whatt maner a thyng. I. Profeta. Were mystecall vnto youre heryng, Of the natevete off a kyng. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. 4^v Least the matters which in some cases are misticall enough of themselues by reason of their owne profoundnesse, might haue bene made more obscure. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl.* (1888) I. 132 The sentences of this contracte in Marmor war hewin, in Hieroglyphical or mistical lettiris. 1643 J. Milton Soveraigne Salve 21 While they mature..such their mysticall and pernicious designes. 1652 (?1476) Ripley's Pref. to Medulla in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Brit. 392 Try and discerne within your hearte, By all the Lessons misticall. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. §6 Their Hieroglyphical and mystical Learning hath made the greatest noise in the world, and hath the least of substance in it. 1727 S. Shuckford Hist. World I. Pref. p. l Instead of supporting them with Reason and Argument, they had them expressed in mystical Sentences. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 104 [He] has not only traduc'd us, but made the whole affair so dark and mystical, that [etc.]. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xxxiv Struck with the mystical fragments of speech she had bestowed on him. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. i. 19 I would..we had that mystical needle which mariners talk of. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. x. i. 35 That illness had been both preceded and followed by mystical presentiments of the evil days that were to fall on England. 1912 J. Conrad Secret Sharer ii, in 'Twixt Land & Sea 132 His obscure tenacity on that point had in it something incomprehensible and a little awful; something, as it were, mystical. 1977 J. Monaco How to read Film ii. 86 The Golden Section of classical art and architecture, a truly mystical number expressive of a ratio found everywhere in nature, often in the strangest places. †b. Of a person: obscure in speech, mysterious in behaviour; versed or apparently initiated in occult or esoteric knowledge. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1604 A. Scoloker Daiphantus Ded. sig. A2^v If I seeme misticall, or tyrannicall, whether I be a Foole or a Lord's-Ingle. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 18 Such mysticall Mist-all and Misse-all Interpreters. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §96 A Physitian, that would be Mysticall, prescribeth, for the Cure of the Rheume, that a Man should walk Continually upon a Camomill-alley; Meaning, that he should put Camomill within his Socks. 1652 Ripley's Epist. Edward IV in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 111 Though I dare not here plainly the knot unbinde, Yet in my writeing I wyll not be so Mysticall But that ye may by studie the knowleige finde. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 1 As also the whole Band of the Chymists, both mystical and vulgar, do sufficiently testifie. 1698 tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Maxims of Saints 110 But these two things had only their Origin from Scholastick Philosophy, whereof these Mystical Men were preconceited. 3. Relating to or dealing with spiritual or transcendental matters, esp. communion of the soul with God or some higher spiritual power; concerned with spiritual mystery, religious awe, etc. Also: relating to or characteristic of mystics or mysticism. Cf. mystic adj. 5, mystical theology n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [adjective] godcundlyeOE godlyOE ghostlyOE spiritualc1384 espiritualc1405 sprituala1450 mystical1542 spiritualized1615 pneumatic1624 mystic1629 spirituousa1631 pneumatical1644 otherworldly1859 metaphysical1876 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 223^v The same beeyng unfolded & spred abrode shewed some high mysticall mater. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 179 His soul imployed in mysticall meditations. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 22 He held his Talent most Adroyt For any Mystical Exploit. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Suppl. to Hist. Own Time (1902) ii. 473 With my ascetick course of life I joined the reading all the Misticall Authors I could find; in particular all Teresa's works. 1788 T. Taylor Life Proclus in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 19 By the highest and most mystical step, he ascended to the greatest and most consummate or telestic virtues. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 352 The mystical Pythagoras, and the allegorising Plato. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 129/2 The intuition or ecstasy or mystical swoon which appears alike among the Hindus, the Neo-Platonists, and the mediæval saints. 1904 J. R. Illingworth Christian Char. ix. 182 Both [St Paul and St John] were men the basis of whose life was profoundly mystical. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 466/1 Alabaster's other cabalistic writings are Commentarius de Bestia Apocalyptica (1621) and Spiraculum tubarum..(1633), a mystical interpretation of the Pentateuch. 1988 A. Storr School of Genius iii. 37 A mystical experience of unity with the universe which is familiar to those who have read similar accounts. 4. Of or relating to mysterious or occult rites or practices. Cf. mystic n. 3. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > related to practices mystical1577 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > a mystery > [adjective] mistya1382 mysterial?a1425 mystic1577 mystical1577 mysterious1624 telestic1662 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vi. sig. Ii.v^v/2 Their mysticall apparaile, & their sundrie offices. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 26 Too you for wytnesse do I cal: you mystical altars. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 272 This strange, mysticall, or mysterificall manner of sacrifice. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 620 Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles Resembles nearest. View more context for this quotation 1740 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) II. 74 The court and army, danced what they called a mystical dance. 1791 M. De Fleury Summer Day's Excursion in Divine Poems & Ess. 192 The great designs of Jehovah were revealed at first in dark sayings, mystical ceremonies, types so enveloped with clouds, that nothing but the eye of faith could penetrate them. 1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. 1869 F. W. Newman Misc. 192 Their smell when burnt, and the mystical cloud of smoke, were universally esteemed. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 69/2 The Gnostic physician Serenus Sammonicus gave precise instructions as to its [sc. the word ‘abracadabra’'s] mystical use in averting or curing agues and fevers generally. 1962 Guardian 3 Nov. 6/6 The mystical ceremony of ‘topping out’ was performed this morning on the domed roof of the new Smithfield Market. 1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 136 Then came disco, a decade of simulated humping, faceless bodies writhing in a mystical tribal rite. †5. Secret, concealed; unconfessed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] unawnedc1175 unconfesseda1500 unpresented1523 undeclared1526 unrevealed1529 unproclaimed1570 undisclosed1571 unbetrayed1595 mystical1600 unbewrayed1605 undivulged1608 unpublished1608 irrevealed1610 tonguelessa1616 undiscovereda1616 unaffirmeda1631 unprofessed1647 unphrased1663 in poigne1710 napkined1756 unavowed1790 unsignified1809 unsunned1814 expressionless1819 inexpressed1821 unindicated1825 unblazoned1830 inostensible1843 unjournalized1843 unaverred1850 unexhibited1862 unadvertised1864 hermetic1954 1600 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 294 I wald gretumlie comunicat to ȝour grace ane hid and misticall secreit. 1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) ii. ii. 32 Confesse thow misticall Pandaress. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 38 This is the State of the External and Apparent Government of Ireland... But the Internal and Mystical Government of Ireland is thus. Compounds mystical theology n. the branch of theology that deals with the attainment of direct communion of the soul with God. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > mystical mystical theology1613 mystic theology1639 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 572 So many are the interpretations in their mysticall Theologie, that Truth must needs be absent, which is but One. 1844 W. G. Ward Ideal Christian Church 326 Mystical theology is the ascetic theology of those, who are unusually advanced in the Christian course, and leading a life of unearthly and noble sanctity. 1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire iii. 93 This alchemical corpuscular theory was able to coexist with an increasingly evident overlay of hylozoism and mystical theology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1513
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