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mysticism
English
Etymology
From mystic +? ism, from Old French mistique (“mysterious, full of mystery”), from Latin mysticus (“mystical, mystic, of secret rites”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from ?????? (múst?s, “one who has been initiated, initiate”) from ???? (m???, “to close one's lips or eyes; initiate into the mysteries”). Confer Asturian misticismu, Catalan misticisme, French mysticisme, German Mystizismus, Italian misticismo, Portuguese misticismo, Sicilian misticisimu, Spanish misticismo.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?s?t?-s?z'?m IPA(key): /?m?s.t??s?z.?m?/
Noun
mysticism (countable and uncountable, plural mysticisms)
- The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
- A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always been a difficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
- Obscure thoughts and speculations.
Antonyms
- rationalism
Translations
References
- mysticism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mysticism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “mysticism”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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wicca
Finnish
Noun
wicca
- Wicca (neo-pagan religion)
- Wiccan (follower of this religion)
Declension
Synonyms
- (religion): wicca-uskonto, wiccalaisuus
- (follower): wiccalainen
Derived terms
- wiccalainen
- wiccalaisuus
Italian
Noun
wicca f (invariable)
- Wicca
Related terms
- wiccano
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”).
Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).
The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", w?glian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wig?n, via Kluge's law becoming *wikk?n. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /?w?t??e/, from *wikkæ, from *wikk?n with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *?n. The palatal -cc- /t??/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.
An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t??/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wit.t???/
Noun
wi??a m (nominative plural wi??an)
- wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
- c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
- c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
Declension
Derived terms
- wi??e f
Descendants
- Middle English: wicche; wikke, wikked
- English: witch; Wicca (borrowing), wicked
- Scots: wich; wicked, wicket
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