Defn: One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
MYSTICETE
Mys"ti*cete, n. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
MYSTICISM
Mys"ti*cism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: 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.
3. (Philos.)
Defn: 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
Mys`ti*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. mystification.]