A person believed to see divinely inspired visions; a prophet. Later occasionally also: a person regarded as having profound spiritual insight.

A member of any of several Christian groups active in Spain (or its colonies) in the 16th and 17th centuries, and accused of heresy by the Spanish…

A spiritually or intellectually enlightened person, or one claiming to be so; one initiated into ‘the mysteries’. archaic. Also spec. plural = illum…

An enthusiast (in various senses), esp. (in earliest use) †a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration or demonic possession (obs…

A person who claims (falsely or erroneously) to receive divine communication or inspiration; (in wider sense) a person subject to religious…

A person (supposedly) possessed by a god, demon, spirit, etc.; a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration or demonic…

A person who imagines himself, or professes, to be inspired.

A person who claims to be possessed or inspired by a divine power; a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration. With the and plural…

An inspired person.

(The title of) a Hindu sage or holy man. Also in more general use: (the title of) a popular leader of spiritual thought or opinion. Cf. guru, n.

An inspired or holy man; a sage; an ascetic, a hermit. Also used as an honorific title.

A holy seer; a saint; spec. one of the holy poets or sages believed to have composed the hymns and other sacred writings forming the Vedas.

In the Esoteric Buddhism of members of the Theosophical Society: any of a class of persons with preternatural powers, supposed to exist in South…