mystic• Surely not the meaning it would have for a mystic!• Victoria was a fierymystic, a Stanford graduate who intimately understood the ward politics of San Francisco.• Feministscholarspopularized the writings of medievalmystics such as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen.• Study of these meditations therefore also illuminatesaspects of the innerjourney which all the medieval mystics take for granted.• This is not to say that athletes are yogis or mystics.• We have seen that all our mysticsstress the importance of attending to the needs of the body.• The Essenes are not passivemystics.• Both men were secularmystics who chose to canonise their own tastes.
mystic• No longer is it tainted as mystic, for here, with no one passing judgment, no experience is tainted.• Thus was established the image of the Falls as a dread and mystic place.• With a sense of the mysticpotency of humankind.• To taste the elixir of life, become a drunkard in that mystictavern!
Originmystic2
(1300-1400)Latinmysticus, from Greek, from mystos; → MYSTERY