Sample Sentences for
mystic
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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
  • mystic and marvelous surprises  (source)
    mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • 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
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  • This branch of mystic study is hereby ended.  (source)
    mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • After a long silence, he said: "There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth."  (source)
    mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding
  • In some corners of the world we were regarded as shamans and mystics, consulted in times of trouble.†  (source)
  • He had no mysticism about turtles  (source)
    mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
  • It was the kind of scene in which Lily had often pictured herself as taking the principal part, and on this occasion the fact that she was once more merely a casual spectator, instead of the mystically veiled figure occupying the centre of attention, strengthened her resolve to assume the latter part before the year was over.†  (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)
    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
  • HATHORNE, with a mystical tone: God be praised!  (source)
    mystical = with a sense of wonder or mystery
  • "Thee Mystics rule," one of them yelled from the other side of the school fence.†  (source)
  • White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism.  (source)
    mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience
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