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mystagog

mystagog is the alternative form of mystagogue.

Meaning of mystagogue

Noun

mystagogue (plural mystagogues)

  1. A person who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult, or who teaches mystical doctrines.
    • There is an overruling destiny above us, though not in the sense in which it was viewed by that wretched man, who, beguiled by some foreign mystagogue, used the awful word as the ready apology for whatever he chose to do—we must examine the packet.1820, [Walter Scott], The Abbot. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and...
    Synonyms:
    hierophant

Forms of mystagog

pluralmystagogs

Questions about mystagog

What is mystagog the alternative form of?
Mystagog is the alternative form of mystagogue.

Words near mystagog in the dictionary

  1. mystacinid
  2. mystacinids
  3. mystacocarid
  4. mystacocarids
  5. mystae
  6. mystagog
  7. mystagogi
  8. mystagogic
  9. mystagogical
  10. mystagogically
  11. mystagogies

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