Definition of Mystagogues

1. Noun. (plural of mystagogue) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mystagogues

1. mystagogue [n] - See also: mystagogue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mystagogues

mysophobia
mysophobias
mysophobic
mysost
mysosts
myspaced
myspacing
mystacal
mystacial
mystagog
mystagogic
mystagogical
mystagogies
mystagogs
mystagogue
mystagogues (current term)
mystagogy
mysterial
mysteriarch
mysteriarchs
mysteries
mysterioso
mysteriosophy
mysterious
mysteriously
mysteriousness
mysterize
mysterized
mysterizes
mysterizing

Literary usage of Mystagogues

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Songs of the Average Man by Sam Walter Foss (1907)
"... With pundits and profundities, With magi and with mystagogues — With ... with mystagogues • With murky, mazy prodigies, — With most mysterious ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The most renowned mystagogues of the Middle Ages were the two metropolitans of Thessalonica, ... The more modern era has also produced its mystagogues. ..."

3. The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State by John Leland (1819)
"But then in what follows he supposes, that though both the mystagogues and the Christians taught future punishments, yet they differed in their accounts of ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1842)
"... comes to a heathen temple to deposit the bones of its progenitor; and the Egyptian priests are the mystagogues to calculate the times, ..."

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