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# mystical

adjective (mystical)

«mystical» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Having a hidden spiritual meaning that is hard to explain, beyond the everyday world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#m1)
2. Strange, magical and full of wonder. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#m2)

### In the lessons

In religion and stories: a mystical experience, a mystical light. In The Wind in the Willows the chapter «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn» is mystical: Rat and Mole meet the god Pan on an island and feel awe.

### Examples

- The forest at dawn felt mystical. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x1)
- Rat and Mole had a mystical meeting on the island. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x2)
- Some Christians tell of mystical experiences in prayer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x3)
- The old stone circle has a mystical feel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x4)
- The music sounded mystical and far away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x5)
- The story is full of mystical creatures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/#x6)

### Note

Related: mystic, mystery, mysticism. Trap: mystical things are not proven by science; say «some people believe».

## In Jewish tradition

It describes the Kabbalah and Sefer Yetzirah as writings with hidden spiritual meanings. In the primary lessons: In religion and stories: a mystical experience, a mystical light. In The Wind in the Willows the chapter «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn» is mystical: Rat and Mole meet the god Pan on an island and feel awe.

### Examples

- D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystical/#x1)
- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystical/#x2)
- For it was originally written in an obscure half-mystical style. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystical/#x3)

### Note

Related: mystic, mystery, mysticism. Trap: mystical things are not proven by science; say «some people believe».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mystical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mystical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mystical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mystical.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mystical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mystical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mystical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mystical.html) on Mova free.