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.
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Origin of mystagogue
1540–50; < Latin mystagōgus < Greek mystagōgós, equivalent to mýst ( ēs ) ( see mystic) + ágōgos -agogue
Example Sentences
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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
Marshall McLuhan, the 1960s' mystagogue of the media, has proposed something of an explanation�or at any rate, a suggestive metaphor for the collision that has occurred in Indochina.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is what I call being a mystagogue.
From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Apollonius of Tyanus is a popular Alexandrianist, and Jamblicus is Plotinus become a priest, mystagogue, and hierophant.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
U and e are both silent in the words rogue, brogue, fugue, eclogue, prologue, apologue, epilogue, intrigue, fatigue, synagogue, demagogue, pedagogue, decalogue, catalogue, mystagogue, picturesque, burlesque, grotesque, pique, casique.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.
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