(n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Example Sentences:
(1) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(3) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(4) Contact was made with a ‘mystical-religious’ group that used the gas to accelerate arriving at their transcendental-meditative state of choice.” It increased in popularity with the rise of festival culture – it’s been a mainstay of Glastonbury’s stone circle and squat parties in Bristol and south London for at least a decade – but the equipment needed to dispense it remained relatively expensive.
(5) Animal Rescue is based on a screenplay by the novelist Dennis Lehane , author of Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River and Shutter Island, all of which have been made into films by Hollywood.
(6) None of the students attributed AIDS to mystical forces, while some associated it with affluence.
(7) As part of their studies, orphans at the centre will be taught a curriculum based on Spirituality for Kids, linked to the Kabbalah school of mysticism, of which Madonna is a follower.
(8) Christians believed, and believe, that the body is not only physical, but also spiritual and mystical, and many believed it was an allegory of church, state and family.
(9) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
(10) All subjects were most likely to cite mystical causes for their disability and to believe that mystical sources would most help them to improve.
(11) If there’s a mystic, a European setting and an antique time-period, you should already know – if only from bitter experience of his recent oeuvre – that you’re in eighth-rate Allen territory.
(12) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
(13) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
(14) Such mystical guidance always remained important to him.
(15) As for individuals, intent on shielding themselves from paying tax, intent on giving nothing back, I fail to see the mystical benefit of their physical presence in the UK.
(16) Going beyond, an attempt is made, and this, solely from the anthropological standpoint, to apply these data to the religious and mystical act of Eucharistic Manducation.
(17) The film reflects the conciliatory, almost mystical mood of a man who emerged from prison as a mediator, philosopher and president-in-waiting.
(18) The study of spatial marks implies looking for the fundamental marks of the human being as well as the existence of a mystical space that has to be differenciated from a pathological space.
(19) Stanford University might have been the cradle for a hundred Silicon Valley startups and the hothouse for some of its greatest technical innovations, but the Singularity University is an institution that has been made in the valley's own image: highly networked, fuelled by a cocktail of philanthro-capitalism and endowed with an almost mystical sense of its own destiny.
(20) I’ll call them the Mystic East, the Dead Centre, and the Wild West.
Wizard
Definition:
(n.) A wise man; a sage.
(n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
(a.) Enchanting; charming.
(a.) Haunted by wizards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(3) Gomez has appeared in 106 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place (a show about magically gifted kids which aired on Disney) and released three albums with her band the Scene .
(4) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(5) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(6) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
(7) • Bad Idea Jeans Department : Should the NBA make room for fighting like the NHL as the Washington Wizards’ Marcin Gortat has suggested?
(8) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(9) Apparently there was something in the water as George Hill, immediately fouled by the Wizards with only six seconds left in regulation, went to the line with a two-point Indiana lead and a chance to make it a two-possession game instead, yep, hit only one of his two free throws.
(10) The Washington Wizards center Jason Collins has become, in his own words, "the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport".
(11) A classic late 30s Popular Front studio movie is not how most of us think of The Wizard Of Oz.
(12) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
(13) It’s just the politics at the end of the day beat me,” Hockey told Mark Bouris, the founder of Wizard Home Loans and the host of Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
(14) This Japanese attraction will be the third of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme parks.
(15) Open Mon-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 12.30pm-11pm Spoon Cafe Bistro Spoon Cafe Bistro This place used to be known as Nicolson's Cafe or "one of the places where a single mum called Joanne sat in a corner to write some book about a boy wizard".
(16) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
(17) What is your position?” David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is asking me about my position on Israel.
(18) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
(19) Even the revered “Wizard of Oz”, as Crosby is known, is facing pointed questions after promising that the party would have reached the “crossover” point in the polls by now – the moment when the Tories take a clear lead over Labour.
(20) Australian visual effects wizard Dave Clayton has been nominated for his work on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.