mystagogue
Americannoun
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someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
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a person whose teachings are said to be founded on mystical revelations.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mystagogue
1540–50; < Latin mystagōgus < Greek mystagōgós, equivalent to mýst ( ēs ) ( see mystic) + ágōgos -agogue
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Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, who began life as a drawing teacher and is now chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
They who wish to pay their devotions at the shrine cannot do better than take with them Gregorovius, as cicerone and mystagogue.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
To Clement and Origen, however, teacher and mystagogue are as closely connected as they are to most Gnostics.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
But in her dealings with social formulæ here in England she is, it must frankly be said, a common mystagogue.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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