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mystagogue

/mis-tuh-gawg, -gog/US // ˈmɪs təˌgɔg, -ˌgɒg //UK // (ˈmɪstəˌɡɒɡ) //

神秘主义者,神秘教派,神秘主义,神秘学者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
    • : a person whose teachings are said to be founded on mystical revelations.

Examples

  • He had none of the airs of mystagogue, but talked to men, as he did to beasts, in the speech which was habitual to them.

  • Meursius,” says his editor, “was the true and legitimate mystagogue to the sanctuarius of Greece.

  • But Barrs was too sprightly a spirit to remain a mystagogue.

  • Henri Bergson is a mystagogue, and all mystagogues are mythomaniacs.

  • Nevertheless he was no anarchist and no mystagogue; and even where he was defective, his defect has commonly been stated wrongly.