Mystic

-al , mis′tik, -al, adj. relating to, or containing, mystery: sacredly obscure or secret: involving a sacred or a secret meaning hidden from the eyes of the ordinary reader, only revealed to a spiritually enlightened mind, allegorical: belonging to mysticism.— n. Mys′tic , one who seeks for direct intercourse with God in elevated religious feeling or ecstasy.— adv. Mys′tically .— ns. Mys′ticalne , the quality of being mystical; Mys′ticism , the doctrine of the mystics, a tendency of religious feeling marked by an effort to attain to direct and immediate communion with God: obscurity of doctrine; Mystificā′tion .— v.t. Mys′tify , to make mysterious, obscure, or secret: to involve in mystery:— pr.p. mys′tifying; pa.t. and pa.p. mys′tified. — Mystic recitation , the recitation of parts of the Greek liturgy in an inaudible voice; Mystical theology , the knowledge of divine things attained by spiritual insight and experience only, without authority, the proce of reason, . [L. mystic us —Gr. mystikos . Cf. Mystery , a secret doctrine.]