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mystagogue

[ mis-tuh-gawg, -gog ]

noun

  1. someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
  2. a person whose teachings are said to be founded on mystical revelations.


mystagogue

/ 藢m瑟st蓹藞伞蓲d蕭瑟k; 藞m瑟st蓹藢伞蓲d蕭瑟; 藞m瑟st蓹藢伞蓲伞 /

noun

  1. (in Mediterranean mystery religions) a person who instructs those who are preparing for initiation into the mysteries
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • mystagogy, noun
  • 藢尘测蝉迟补藞驳辞驳颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
  • mystagogic, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘测蝉路迟补路驳辞路驳测 [mis, -t, uh, -goh-jee, -goj-ee], 尘测蝉路迟补路驳辞路驳耻别路谤测 [mis, -t, uh, -gaw-g, uh, -ree, -gog-, uh, -], noun
  • 尘测蝉路迟补路驳辞驳路颈肠 [mis-t, uh, -, goj, -ik], 尘测蝉顎卼补路驳辞驳顎僫路肠补濒 adjective
  • 尘测蝉顎卼补路驳辞驳顎僫路肠补濒路ly adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mystagogue1

1540鈥50; < Latin 尘测蝉迟补驳艒驳耻蝉 < Greek 尘测蝉迟补驳艒驳贸蝉, equivalent to 尘媒蝉迟 ( 脓蝉 ) ( mystic ) + 谩驳艒驳辞蝉 -agogue
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mystagogue1

C16: via Latin from Greek 尘耻蝉迟补驳艒驳辞蝉, from must脓蝉 candidate for initiation + agein to lead. See mystic
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Example Sentences

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Now, everyone knows everything, and the glance into the kitchen of cinema has made us at once suspicious and nostalgic鈥攕uspicious of the mystagogue with the secret recipe, nostalgic for the comforts of home and for the transparency of the storyteller at the hearth.

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Henri Bergson is a mystagogue, and all mystagogues are mythomaniacs.

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Mystagogue, 78, 99, 253, 269 Mysteries, 6, 76, 92, 145, 158, 230, 269, 284, 287.

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Superstition With Philosophy so ready to be our mystagogue and to lead us into the true knowledge of divine goodness, and with so helpful a theory to explain away all that is offensive in traditional religion, faith ought to be as easy as it is happy and wholesome.

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And it is an incident worth noticing here, that, in the case of Mayence, virgin-mother of the God-sired Hesus of the Druids, the ancient traditions of the country, more than two thousand years old, represent her body as being enveloped in light, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head, corresponding exactly to the apocalyptic figure described by the mystagogue, St. John, in the twelfth chapter of his Revelation.

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