mystic
Origin of mystic
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mystical, otherworldly, supernatural, occult, imaginary, visionary, magic, spiritual, abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, esoteric, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, magical, metaphysical, mysteriousExamples from the Web for mystic
Contemporary Examples of mystic
At Temple, Coltrane no longer operated as a jazz artist improvising melodies, but more like a mystic on a vision quest.
The other night, quite by chance, I came across some lines in Rumi, the 13th-century poet—a Sufi mystic from Persia.
Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.
It revealed his vulnerability to ideas, ideology, and mystic hoo-ha.
"The yuppies are coming," a cop complains in Mystic River, like a 21st-century Paul Revere.
Historical Examples of mystic
It is bitter in Baudelaire, sweet and plaintive in Lamartine, mystic in Verlaine.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
You were in a poppy sleep on the mystic flowers of ancient dreams.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
There was that mystic depth of expression which comes from ancient Egypt.
The Slave Of The LampHenry Seton Merriman
But they are, above all, the thoughts of a mystic, moving in a Divine presence.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume IMrs. Humphry Ward
This, then, was that mystic past against which her figure had stood out!
Cleo The MagnificentLouis Zangwill