Examples of mystic in a Sentence
Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
Hilma af Klint, a largely unknown Swedish artist and mystic was discovered as an important pioneer of abstract painting.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Naperville Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina.
Also known as Padre Pio, St. Pio was born Francesco Forgione in 1887 and became an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and mystic.
—Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
Francesco Forgione, known as Padre Pio or St. Pio, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and mystic who was beatified in 1999 and canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.
—Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
CBDistillery Learn more about the mystic realm of CBD oil, where each bottle is a unique work of art.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
According to the city of Orange Beach, mystic societies will travel along Perdido Beach Boulevard from the traffic signal just east of Phoenix West to the intersection of Ala. 161, near the Publix shopping center.
—al, 2 Jan. 2023
From clairvoyant camels to mystic elephants and cryptic rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.
—Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2022
There is a mystic heaviness to Libertie's language — her speech, her writing, her thoughts — and Greenidge structures the novel in sections hinging on significant plot points: the death of a patient, the founding of a hospital, traveling to college, getting married and giving birth.
—Jackie Thomas-Kennedy Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
But his lay order is a deliberate hodgepodge of the ideas Duncan has studied for much of his life: the works of 14th century German mystic Meister Eckhart; the Japanese Buddhist Eihei Dogen; the sacred Vedas of India.
—Maggie Neal Doherty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
Still — unsavory inhabitants notwithstanding — the arid, sandy swaths of the American Southwest have attracted generations of artists, mystics, hippies and cowboys.
—Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Even within the rabbinic tradition, there were regular disagreements: between mystics and rationalists, for example; debates over people claiming to be the messiah; and differences in customs between regions, from medieval Spain to Poland to Yemen.
—Joshua Shanes, Fortune, 19 June 2023
The mystics and statistics do not see the Sox making the playoffs.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
Kesha resumes her seat on the mystic’s throne and inhales.
—Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 20 June 2023
One of those saints was St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish mystic who claimed to have visions of Jesus Christ during the 1930s.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
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Word History
Adjective
Middle English mystyke "open to symbolic or spiritual interpretation," borrowed from Latin mysticus "of secret rites, secret," borrowed from Greek mystikós, from mýstēs "person initiated (into a religious cult)" (probably from mys-, variant stem of mȳ́ein "to close, shut [the eyes]"—of uncertain origin— + -tēs, agent suffix) + ikos -ic entry 1
Noun
probably derivative of mystic entry 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun
1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mystic. Accessed 27 Sep. 2023.
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Mystic
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