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mystic

/ˈmɪstɪk/

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What does mystic mean?

adjective

  1. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
  2. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.

noun

  1. Someone who practices mysticism.
More meanings (6)

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Nevada County, California.
  2. A ghost town in Routt County, Colorado.
  3. A village and census-designated place in the towns of Stonington and Groton, New London County, Connecticut.
  4. A minor city in Appanoose County, Iowa.
  5. An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
  6. An unincorporated community in Pennington County, South Dakota.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈmɪstɪk/

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This can only be effected by the action of the affective and mystic elements which give man the power to act.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448
From the bed-room window above their heads Bathsheba’s head and shoulders, robed in mystic white, were dimly seen extended into the air.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
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Unutterable relief instantly filled them as if they fell upon the mystic jewel which sparkled in the centre of my stolen headpiece.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64
All the while her thought was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
Eva, the beautiful Eva, had stood listening to her mother, with that expression of deep and mystic earnestness which was peculiar to her.
Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinProject Gutenberg ebook #203