Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
anagogical . - noun A mystical or spiritual interpretation, especially of Scripture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or employing an
anagoge
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- adjective based on or exemplifying anagoge
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Examples
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He was an anagogic demon, with the ability to read people and demons while they sang.
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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He was an anagogic demon, with the ability to read people and demons while they sang.
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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I mean, how many times can an anagogic demon pinch himself in one night?
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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I mean, how many times can an anagogic demon pinch himself in one night?
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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Theologians discov - ered in rhetoric the devices for interpreting theological writings; the recognition of the four possible “senses” of a work (literal, allegorical, moral, anagogic) resulted from a transposition into the spiritual domain of inter - pretative techniques developed for mundane works.
RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968
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Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.
Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle
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We find it, for instance, in the criticism of Virgil, to whose work were attributed four distinct meanings: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogic.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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In them he comments on the texts of sacred Scripture presented by the liturgy, using the Patristic-Medieval interpretation of the four meanings: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogic, which guides to eternal life.
Latest Articles Zenit News Agency 2010
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In them he comments on the texts of sacred Scripture presented by the liturgy, using the Patristic-Medieval interpretation of the four meanings: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogic, which guides to eternal life.
Latest Articles 2010
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—into the unbeating hearts of vampires everywhere, Gunn slipped behind the front desk to join Cordelia Chase and Lorne, the green-skinned anagogic demon and sometimes Angel Investigations telephone receptionist, in front of the television set.
Monolith John Passarella 2004
mount_weary commented on the word anagogic
preferred definition: "deriving from, pertaining to, or reflecting the moral or idealistic striving of the unconscious." As in, "an anagogic refinement of the universe."
November 12, 2015