Both Uses of
enigma
in
Moby Dick
- For me, I silently recalled the mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the dim Nantucket dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah.†
Chpt 46-48 *enigmatical = mysterious and seemingly unexplainable
- Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers.†
Chpt 94-96
Definition:
something mysterious that seems unexplainable