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Definition of Telestic
1. a. Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.
Definition of Telestic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to religious mysteries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Telestic
1. a type of acrostic [n -S] - See also: acrostic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telestic
Literary usage of Telestic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... "I therefore call this the telestic or mystic operation ; which is conversant
about the purgation of the lucid or ethereal vehicle. ..."
2. The Cryptography of Shakespeare by Walter Arensberg (1922)
"An anagrammatic telestic appears on the first three lines of the Catalogue page of
... Consider in these lines the following telestic letters: VE ra Read: ..."
3. Studies On The Neoplatonist Hierocles by Ilsetraut Hadot (2004)
"I call "telestic activity" the power that purifies the luminous vehicle, so that,
of the whole of philosophy, the theoretical part may come first as ..."
4. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Combinations of acrostic and telestic are found in the Corp. ... and telestic,
in Flavins Felix (about AD 500). ..."
5. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"Combination of acrostic and telestic OIL. 5, 1693, AL. ... and telestic. For other
productions of this kind see § 99, 2. 384, 3. 403, 2. 474, 2. 476,1. ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Wherefore the mystic and telestic purgation of the soul, continually dwelt upon
by the Platonists, is by no means a new kind of death, different from the ..."
7. Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1890)
"... though not the telestic form of the original:— In glory see the rising sun,
Illustrious orb of day, Enlightening heaven's wide expanse. ..."
8. The Classical Journal (1828)
"... speaking of the four species of mania enumerated by Plato, ie the musical,
the telestic, or pertaining to the mysteries, the prophetic, and the amatory, ..."
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