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Meanings of mystic in English
Relating to or characteristic of mysticism.
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Catalan
místic Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.
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Examples for "secret"
Examples for "secret"
1
They say that keeping that number a secret is simply industry practice.
2
Methods: Review of previously secret tobacco industry documents available on the internet.
3
But New Zealand's high rates of family violence are hardly a secret.
4
Hundreds have gone missing after seen last being taken by secret police.
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Its secret nature, however, meant that this information was slow in coming.
1
At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn.
2
GOVERNMENT departments are known to work in mysterious ways, writes Michael Dervan.
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Two days later a second mysterious event gave the rumors new life.
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Occupation: Former police officer turned private detective; peerless solver of mysterious murders.
5
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
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Purpose: To report a case of occult globe perforation following craniofacial surgery.
2
Of course I had certain-certainoccult defences I never told you about.
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Methods: Sixty patients with a clinically occult breast lesion were prospectively included.
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The other we could credit to the occult; but not the sound.
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Published at least 100 more books, mainly about crime and the occult.
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Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate.
2
And they have such an orphic character, too; you can interpret them in so many different ways.
3
The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own.
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Starting at the bottom of the card, we find the Orphic egg.
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It is natural that the Orphic Alcott should build graceful summer-houses.
Usage of mystic in English
1
The thirteenth-century mystic had preached such strange things with such common words.
2
He was a master in the coming of mystic phrases in letters.
3
Not the least in the world: on the contrary, a confirmed mystic.
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Then the voice of the aged mystic was again heard in reply:
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This is not the time or place to discuss such mystic matters.
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I was pushing the edge already, in both mystic and physical terms.
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Here is the rapture of the mystic, the triumph of the saint.
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Far in front the foot-hills rose through the rain, indefinite and mystic.
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The people believed in his mystic words and soothsayings and mistaken fanaticism.
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And then, in wondrous mystic wise, the tone of the gathering softened.
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The gleam of the devil himself-theecho of some mystic cymbal note.
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The night was mystic, in its odd blend of moon and shadows.
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Such is the mystic voice which is always murmuring in his ears.
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She lived in an atmosphere of dreams and of mystic old associations.
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They will be conditioned by the particular religious tradition of the mystic.
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There is not an immeasurable distance between the mystic and the madman.
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Mystic through the time
Mystic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common