Definitions for mystagogue

mystagogue mys·ta·gogue

Spelling: [mis-tuh-gawg, -gog]
IPA: /ˈmɪs təˌgɔg, -ˌgɒg/

Mystagogue is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 501 anagrams from letters in mystagogue (aeggmostuy).

Definitions for mystagogue

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.

Origin of mystagogue

1540-50; Latin mystagōgus Greek mystagōgós, equivalent to mýst(ēs) (see mystic) + ágōgos -agogue

Examples for mystagogue

Thus, with Piero for mystagogue, we enter an inner shrine of deep religious revelation.

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.

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

But Barrs was too sprightly a spirit to remain a mystagogue.

He founded a sect, and was called by his esoteric followers 'the mystagogue of sublime and celestial dogmas.'

Logically, he is a detective, but I almost think that in his case the detective is a symbol of the mystagogue.

But the mystagogue succeeds because he gets himself misunderstood; although, as a rule, he is not even worth misunderstanding.

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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