mystical

mystical
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical
           religion" [syn: {mystic}, {mystical}]
    2: relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition";
       "mystical theories about the securities market" [syn:
       {mystic}, {mystical}]
    3: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to
       the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious
       symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the
       secret learning of the ancients" [syn: {mysterious},
       {mystic}, {mystical}, {occult}, {secret}, {orphic}]
    

Mystic \Mys"tic\, Mystical \Mys"tic*al\, a. [L. mysticus, Gr. ?
   belonging to secret rites, from ? one initiated: cf. F.
   mystique. See 1st {Mystery}, {Misty}.]
   1. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human
      understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
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            Heaven's numerous hierarchy span
            The mystic gulf from God to man.      --Emerson.
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            God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.
                                                  --Hooker.
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   2. Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret
      meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance;
      mystic Babylon.
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            Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness
            inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical
      explanations; -- contrasted to {logical}, {rational},
      {analytical}.
      [WordNet 1.5] -- {Mys"tic*al*ly}, adv. --
      {Mys"tic*al*ness}, n.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "mystical":
      absolute, abysmal, allegorical, anagogic, arcane,
      between the lines, cabalic, cabalistic, cabbalistic, categorical,
      clandestine, concealed, covert, cryptic, deep, delitescent, divine,
      dormant, enwrapped in mystery, epiphanic, esoteric, furtive,
      hibernating, hidden, hole-and-corner, holy, hugger-mugger,
      hush-hush, indefinable, ineffable, inexplicable, inextricable,
      insoluble, insolvable, latent, lurking, metaphysic, miraculous,
      muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult,
      possible, potential, preternatural, private, profound, sacred,
      secret, sleeping, sneak, spiritual, stealthy, submerged,
      supernatural, supranatural, symbolical, theosophical, theosophist,
      ultimate, unaccountable, undefinable, under the surface,
      underlying, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmanifested,
      unrevealed, unsolvable, veiled, virtual