单词 | mystically |
释义 | mysticallyadv. 1. In a mystical manner; so as to inspire a sense of spiritual mystery, religious awe, etc.; mysteriously, obscurely. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adverb] dighenlichec893 diȝelichec1200 darklyc1350 mysteriously1486 mystically1509 in (a) mystery1526 abstrusely1611 cryptically1663 oracularly1771 occultly1793 pokerishly1854 mystifically1880 sophically1888 sphinxily1889 mystifyingly1937 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A*.ii I desyre alwaye and appetyteth newe inuencyons compyled mystycally. a1536 W. Tyndale Briefe Declar. Sacraments (?1550) D ij Many of the olde doctors spake so mistycallye that they seame sometymes to affirme plainly, that it is but bred and wine only..and sometyme that it is hys very body and bloud. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxi. 89 Some such are mistically domme. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 3 Your Lordship speaks mystically, will it please you to be plain a little? 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iii. 38 Still mystically, senceless and impudent. 1731 J. Mitchell Highland Fair ii. iv. 47 Willy. Methinks, Madam, you look as if you had known what's What. Mag. You talk mystically still. Willy. To be plain then, [etc.]. 1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora I. 57 They adjourned to the stable, to review the beast that had been so mystically introduced. 1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity xxv. 245 Zwinglius only expressed..rationalistically..what the others declared mystically. 1884 J. R. Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 494 Faust..was..as mystically, as awfully sombre as any of those plays of Calderon. 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art iii. i. 245 Human nature..mystically compels the peoples to arm and slaughter one another. 1995 I. Banks Whit xxvii. 426 One could feel almost mystically taken out of oneself, transported to another plane of existence where things became clearer and simpler and more connected. 2. a. Christian Church. In a mystical sense (see mystical adj. 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [adverb] in (also through) his mysteryc1350 in mistc1400 mysteriallyc1425 mysticlyc1429 in (a) mystery1526 mystically1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Misticallye, typice. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2193/1 The fatte Priest. I pray thee what is mystically? Wood. I take mystically to be ye faith that is in vs, that the world seeth not, but God onely. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 227 Euen as we are the bodies and members of Christ, and that is spiritually and mystically. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise ii. f. 25 Becaus ane place of the scripture hes a mistik sense. Thair fore the vther aucht to be tane misticallie. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 297 He..that was mystically slaine in Abel. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life v. 53 [The union] of two distinct natures, and persons; by one Spirit, mystically. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 97 When Saints of all their Sins releas'd On Jesus mystically feast. 1747 J. Edwards True Saints vi Christ is the head of the whole glorified assembly; they are mystically his glorified body. 1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality v. ii. 534 In virtue of their being mystically or representatively in Christ as their Head. 1990 G. Appleton Unfinished (BNC) 46 The mantle which fell off Elijah's shoulders as he was actually or mystically carried off in ‘a whirlwind into heaven’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > allegorically parablyc1384 secretlyc1430 allegorically1538 parable-wise1573 mystically1586 parabolically1615 Aesopically1960 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. B.ii v They supposed all wisedome..to be included mystically in that diuine instinction, wherewith they thought their Vates to bee inspyred. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B2 Why he doth speak mystically. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales Introd. Moses in writing the History of the Creation did mystically teach the whole progress of the Metallick Art. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) ii. iv. 58 He doth not mean Mystically in this, but Physically. 1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens of Brentford i. 15 Those ambitious Princes had plotted the deposing the Usurpers, King Usher, and King Phiz, to set up themselves; and were then mystically arguing in Heat, though they talk'd of Mistresses of their Methods in Stratagem. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 188 The strange-statued gate Where Arthur's wars were render'd mystically. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adverb] > in low or inaudible voice mystically1657 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adverb] > in a low voice mystically1657 1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (new ed.) 102 The Priest should say it μυστικῶς secretly and mystically. ΚΠ 1817 S. T. Coleridge Sibylline Leaves (1859) 241 I have arrows mystically dipt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1509 |
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