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  • The mystic communed with spirits through the flickering candlelight, translating their whispered messages for the anxious client.
    mystic = person with supernatural insights
  • Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.  (source)
    mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding
  • HATHORNE, with a mystical tone: God be praised!  (source)
    mystical = with a sense of wonder or mystery
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  • mystic and marvelous surprises  (source)
    mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • There's something mystical about the proud man, in your sense.  (source)
  • Mystics and math were tough.  (source)
    Mystics = [studying] people said to comprehend reality using supernatural means
  • One evening I told him how unhappy I was because I could not find a master in Sighet to instruct me in the Zohar, the cabalistic book, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.  (source)
    mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • I was hypnotically drawn into this old land, into what struck me as an almost mystically refined, cultured society.†  (source)
  • And we have a small, extremely literate power elite— the people who go into the Metaverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.†  (source)
    semimystical = partially relating to realities beyond scientific understanding
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • Once he surrendered reason, he was left at the mercy of ... a body moved by unaccountable instincts and of a soul moved by mystic revelations...  (source)
    mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • In my mind, it acquired a kind of mystical power.†  (source)
    mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding  OR  inspiring a sense of wonder or mystery; or beyond human comprehension
  • City of artists and writers, Sufis and mystics.†  (source)
    mystics = people said to comprehend reality using supernatural means
  • He had no mysticism about turtles  (source)
    mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
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