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  • noun Plural form of mystic.

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Examples

  • Almost everyone, except certain mystics and super string theorists, agree that causes precede effects.

    Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened 2009

  • There can be, I think, no doubt that the persons whom we call mystics have enormously added to the richness of our conception of God, or that they have made impressive contributions to the capital stock of our religious knowledge.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • So that's when he calls his mystics and wizards and says, 'Make me a god so I can avenge my father.'

    Filmstalker 2010

  • What God revealed to Israel through the prophets, the sages, and the mystics is the “bold and dangerously paradoxical idea” that God needs man.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Alex Tang 2010

  • I discovered there were beings called mystics and shamans and yogis who claimed to be familiar with the exotic outback of human consciousness.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • I discovered there were beings called mystics and shamans and yogis who claimed to be familiar with the exotic outback of human consciousness.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • I discovered there were beings called mystics and shamans and yogis who claimed to be familiar with the exotic outback of human consciousness.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Hence his resemblance to the mystics, which is a resemblance of psychical temperament and not of spiritual attitude.

    Mysticism in English Literature Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 1905

  • The soft breeze that was blowing scarcely ruffled the surface of this beautiful river; two or three picturesque barks, called mystics, with long latine sails, were gliding down it.

    The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

  • This true and spiritual converse with God distinguished Dr. Tauler from those properly called mystics, whose dreams, and fancies, and feelings, were to them, that which God the Holy Ghost is to the believer.

    Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso 1887

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