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Definition of Mystical
1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of mysticism. "Mystical religion"
Partainyms: Mysticism, Mysticism
Derivative terms: Mysticism, Mystic, Mysticism, Mysticism
2. Adjective. Relating to or resembling mysticism. "Mystical theories about the securities market"
Partainyms: Mysticism, Mysticism
Derivative terms: Mysticism, Mystic, Mysticism, Mysticism
3. Adjective. Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. "The secret learning of the ancients"
Similar to: Esoteric
Derivative terms: Mystery, Mystic, Mystic, Occult, Occult
Definition of Mystical
1. Adjective. Relating to mystics or mysticism. ¹
2. Adjective. Having a spiritual significance that transcends human understanding. ¹
3. Adjective. Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mystical
1. spiritually significant or symbolic [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mystical
Literary usage of Mystical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"mystical Arithmetic.—It is unnecessary further to exemplify, from Proclus, the
general mystical character of the school and time to which he belonged; ..."
2. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"In the case of the Hungarian princess, S. ELIZABETH, wife of the Landgrave Lewis IV.
of Thuringia, the mystical element in her self-less and humble piety ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"CHAPTER XII William Law and the Mystics TO speak of mystical thought in the first
half of the eighteenth century in England seems almost a contradiction in ..."
4. Theory of Politics: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Governments, and the by Richard Hildreth (1854)
"mystical ideas, in their influence upon politics, present themselves under three
... Secondly, as Bigotry, the influence of mystical ideas over those whose ..."
5. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton (1906)
"THE mystical SIDE OF GOOD SENSE THERE is a very interesting paper in the new ...
I should like to show that where Wordsworth is most mystical, good sense ..."
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