All 14 Uses
mystic
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Everything he did was to serve the Rodina (Motherland), a word that had mystical connotations to a Russian and, along with V. I. Lenin, was the Communist party's substitute for a godhead.†
Chpt 1. *mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding OR inspiring a sense of wonder or mystery; or beyond human comprehension
- Mystic is already aboard the Pigeon in Charleston.†
Chpt 9.
- This vessel, the Mystic, was hanging on its rack between the Pigeon's twin catamaran hulls.†
Chpt 14.
- Well, let's get you down to Mystic.†
Chpt 14.
- The Mystic The DSRV was nothing more than three metal spheres welded together with a propeller on the back and some boiler plating all around to protect the pressure-bearing parts of the hull.†
Chpt 14.
- The Mystic was ready for operation.†
Chpt 14.
- The Mystic was hovering over the missile sub's forward escape trunk within ten minutes.†
Chpt 14.
- The water in the skirt between Mystic and Red October was explosively vented into a low-pressure chamber on the DSRV.†
Chpt 14.
- When they were finished, Williams secured first the Mystic's hatch and then the one on the October's escape truck.†
Chpt 14.
- They heard the Mystic's electric motors overhead.†
Chpt 14.
- The Mystic mated again.†
Chpt 14.
- The Red October's escape trunk hatch was closed, then the Mystic's.†
Chpt 14.
- The Avalon The Mystic's fourth return was the signal for the Ethan Allen and Scamp to act.†
Chpt 14.
- The KGB would be working for weeks to reconstruct every event on the submarine from the time the last line was cast off at Polyarnyy to the moment the last man entered the Mystic.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(mystic) a person who seeks or claims to have direct spiritual insight beyond ordinary understanding; or describing an experience that feels deeply spiritual, mysterious, or otherworldlyIn common usage, mystic is more likely to be used in reference to a practitioner of a less mainstream religion than a more mainstream religion -- possibly because the former is more mysterious to the writer.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)