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mysticism
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Mysticism
(gcide) | Mysticism \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
1. Obscurity of doctrine.
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2. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a
pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and
maintained that they had direct intercourse with the
divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of
spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect,
and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
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3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or
principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or
process akin to feeling or faith.
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mysticism
(wn) | mysticism
n 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate
reality [syn: mysticism, religious mysticism]
2: obscure or irrational thought |
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