Vocabulary : Mysterizing to Mystify

Mysterizing : of Mysterize
Mystery : A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension. ;; A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries. ;; The consecrated elements in the eucharist. ;; Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma. ;; A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. ;; A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
Mystic : Alt. of Mystical ;; One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Mystical : Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. ;; Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.
Mysticete : Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
Mysticism : Obscurity of doctrine. ;; 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. ;; The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Mystification : The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
Mystificator : One who mystifies.
Mystified : of Mystify
Mystify : To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. ;; To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent.
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