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: inducing a feeling of awe or wonder
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: having magical properties
Examples of mystic in a Sentence
Adjective
She had a mystic vision while praying.
the notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number
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The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Their science was expansive, allowing room for philosophy and poetry, for a mystic realm that reason cannot reach.
—Ida Momennejad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
But there is also the slow minimalism of Morton Feldman and the manic yet patient seeking of Italy’s mystic count Giacinto Scelsi, in the twentieth century.
—The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Their science was expansive, allowing room for philosophy and poetry, for a mystic realm that reason cannot reach.
—Ida Momennejad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
Elsewhere, this gentle-seeming New Age mystic has praised Ion Antonescu, the Romanian wartime dictator who conspired with Hitler and was sentenced to death for war crimes, including his role in the Romanian Holocaust.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mystic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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mystic
1 of 2 adjective
mys·tic
ˈmis-tik 
mystic
2 of 2 noun
: a person who seeks direct knowledge of God through meditation and prayer
Geographical Definition
Mystic
geographical name
Mys·tic
ˈmi-stik
river in eastern Massachusetts flowing southeast into Boston Harbor
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