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mystagogues

mystagogues is the plural 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

Questions about mystagogues

What is mystagogues the plural of?
Mystagogues is the plural of mystagogue.

Words near mystagogues in the dictionary

  1. mystagogical
  2. mystagogically
  3. mystagogies
  4. mystagogs
  5. mystagogue
  6. mystagogues
  7. mystagogus
  8. mystagogy
  9. mystai
  10. mystax
  11. mystaxes

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