mystical
part of speech
adjective (mystical)
meaning for a pupil
1) Having a hidden spiritual meaning that is hard to explain, beyond the everyday world. tree →
2) Strange, magical and full of wonder. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes the Kabbalah and Sefer Yetzirah as writings with hidden spiritual meanings. In the primary lessons: In religion and stories: a mystical experience, a mystical light. In The Wind in the Willows the chapter «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn» is mystical: Rat and Mole meet the god Pan on an island and feel awe.
examples
- D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- For it was originally written in an obscure half-mystical style. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- The forest at dawn felt mystical. tree →
- Rat and Mole had a mystical meeting on the island. tree →
- Some Christians tell of mystical experiences in prayer. tree →
- The old stone circle has a mystical feel. tree →
- The music sounded mystical and far away. tree →
- The story is full of mystical creatures. tree →
note
Related: mystic, mystery, mysticism. Trap: mystical things are not proven by science; say «some people believe».
Trees and pragmatics
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