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Mystery   /mˈɪstəri/   Listen
noun
Mystery  n.  (pl. mysteries)  
1.
A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension. "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery." "If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind."
2.
A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
3.
pl. The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
4.
Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.


Mystery  n.  (pl. mysteries)  
1.
A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. "Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery." "And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy."
2.
A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century. ""Mystery plays," so called because acted by craftsmen."





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"Mystery" Quotes from Famous Books



... the expression "square-headed." Genestas was accustomed to read the indications that mark the features of men destined to do great things, since he had been brought into close relations with the energetic natures sought out by Napoleon; so he suspected that there must be some mystery in this life of obscurity, and said to himself as he looked at ...
— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac
... magic of your face is not all its own, but has stolen the passionate light that was in my eyes at some immemorial meeting, and then gathered from my love a mystery that has now forgotten ...
— The Fugitive • Rabindranath Tagore
... little astonished, as he started on again, at the pregnant weight of this new parcel. But he did not stop to investigate. He did not care to gulp and lose the mystery at one swallow. He scurried off with it, chucklingly, like a barnyard hen with a corncob, to peck at it in solitude. He swung south and then west again, to his own street. He went up his own steps, through his own door, and up to his own top-floor room with the rakish back wall. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... down and rest, Sweetheart," he said, leading her to the root where her governess was wont to sit, while he stretched himself on the turf at her feet, "and I will explain the mystery to thee." ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... if our ultimate condition must be that of entire subjection and surrender to and harmony with the Divine Will, how sad it is that our consecration is so slow, so protracted, so ungracious; that we take so much time to reach the point where we are altogether the Lord's. People can read the mystery of conversion in the parable of the dry bones in Ezekiel; but there is consecration in the story, too. Little by little we see the dead man coming into the place of blessing; bone to bone, sinew to sinew, nerve to nerve; and when there is the complete ...
— Memoranda Sacra • J. Rendel Harris


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