mystagogue
/mis-tuh-gawg, -gog/US // ˈmɪs təˌgɔg, -ˌgɒg //UK // (ˈmɪstəˌɡɒɡ) //
神秘主义者,神秘教派,神秘主义,神秘学者
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- : a person whose teachings are said to be founded on mystical revelations.
Examples
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.
Meursius,” says his editor, “was the true and legitimate mystagogue to the sanctuarius of Greece.
But Barrs was too sprightly a spirit to remain a mystagogue.
Henri Bergson is a mystagogue, and all mystagogues are mythomaniacs.
Nevertheless he was no anarchist and no mystagogue; and even where he was defective, his defect has commonly been stated wrongly.
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