Middle English Dictionary Entry
mistik(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mistik(e adj. Also mistic. |
| Etymology | L mysticus & OF mistique. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Open to symbolical or spiritual interpretation; mystical, figurative.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) Pref.Jer.(Bod 959)7.162 : Iamez, Peture, Ioon, Iude, seuen epystlez maden, as wel mystyke [WB(2): goostly and mystik; L mysticas] as redy.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)8a/b : Diuynyte vsith holy informacioun and poesies þat myistik & dirk vndirstondinge and figuratif speches menynge what we schal trowe may be I-take of þe liknes of þinges þat beþ I-seye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)11b/a : It semeth þat alle bodilich þinges þat beþ I-seid of god haueþ figuratif, mistik, and derk menynge.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)78b/a : Sweuenes þat beþ trewe buþ somtyme opun & playne, & somtyme I-wrappid in figuratif, mistik & dym & derke tokenynges.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)103b/b : Þat we may by liknesse of bodiliche propirtees þe more esiliche vndirstonde mistik & spiritual menynge in holy writt.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)157a/b : To shewe mystyk and priue þinges to symple men by ensample and lickenesse of suche propretes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)335a/b : Þese wordes beþ in hemself depe & ful mystike, derke to vnderstonde.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.3.3 : A prudent man of mystik, ethir goostli [WB(1): priue; L mystici], speche.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)107/10 : If in dyuynite were no strenger groundis forto holde þerbi þingis to be trewe þan ben mystyk conceitis takun bi holy scripture, as ben tropologies, allegories, and anagogies.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.20 : Litteraly haf ȝe herde this dreme and what it ment; Now hes more ovre to knawe yr of the mistik intent.