Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 89
Mystic (n.) 神祕主義者 [C] One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Mystic (a.) 神祕的，不可思議的；神祕主義的；神祕主義者的 Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the a [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic].
Mystic (a.) Relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition"; "mystical theories about the securities market" [syn: mystic, mystical].
Mystic (a.) Relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical religion" [syn: mystic, mystical].
Mystic (n.) Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension [syn: mystic, religious mystic].
Mystic (), An early system on the IBM 704, IBM 650, IBM 1103 and 1103A. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. (1995-03-07)
Mystic, CT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Connecticut
Population (2000): 4001
Housing Units (2000): 1988
Land area (2000): 3.354559 sq. miles (8.688268 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.440152 sq. miles (1.139989 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.794711 sq. miles (9.828257 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49810
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.353548 N, 71.962796 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 06355
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mystic, CT
Mystic
Mystic, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 588
Housing Units (2000): 273
Land area (2000): 2.929135 sq. miles (7.586425 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.929135 sq. miles (7.586425 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55200
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.778616 N, 92.944933 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52574
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mystic, IA
Mystic
Mysticete (n.) (Zool.) 鬚鯨（上顎有角質鬚以代替牙齒之鯨） Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
Mysticism (n.) Obscurity of doctrine.
Mysticism (n.) [U] (Eccl. Hist.) 神祕主義；玄想；通靈；模糊思想；無根據的信念 The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
Compare: Unattainable
Unattainable, () See attainable.
Unattainable (a.) 達不到的；做不到的 Impossible to achieve; "an unattainable goal" [syn: unachievable, unattainable, undoable, unrealizable].
Mysticism (n.) (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Mysticism (n.) A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality [syn: mysticism, religious mysticism].
Mysticism (n.) Obscure or irrational thought.
Mystification (n.) 神祕化 [U]；困惑不解 [U] The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. -- De Quincey.
Mystification (n.) Confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement].
Mystification (n.) Something designed to mystify or bewilder
Mystification (n.) The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered [syn: mystification, obfuscation].
Mystificator (n.) 使人迷惑者 One who mystifies.
Mystified (imp. & p. p.) of Mystify.
Mystifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mystify.
Mystify (v. t.) 使困惑；使大為驚奇；欺騙，蒙蔽 To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
Mystify (v. t.) To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent.
He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly. -- Ld. Campbell.
Compare: Perplex
Perplex (v. t.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
No artful wildness to perplex the scene. -- Pope.
What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. -- Locke.
Perplex (v. t.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. "Perplexd beyond self-explication." -- Shak.
We are perplexed, but not in despair. -- 2 Cor. iv. 8.
We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. -- Locke.
Perplex (v. t.) To plague; to vex; to torment. -- Glanvill.
Syn: To entangle; involve; complicate; embarrass; puzzle; bewilder; confuse; distract. See Embarrass.
Perplex (a.) Intricate; difficult. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Perplex (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me -- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound].
Perplex (v.) Make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter" [syn: complicate, perplex] [ant: simplify].
Compare: Credulity
Credulity (n.) 輕信，易受騙 [U] Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Credulity (n.) Tendency to believe readily.
Compare: Exceedingly
Exceedingly (adv.) 非常地；極度地To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly.
It signifies more than very.
Exceedingly (adv.) To an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant" [syn: extremely, exceedingly, super, passing].
Mystify (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound].
Mystify (v.) Make mysterious; "mystify the story" [ant: demystify].
Mytacism (n.) Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it.
Mytacism (n.) [U] A speech disorder manifesting as an abnormal repetition of the sound /m/ or replacement of consonants with m-like sounds.
Myth (n.) 神話 [C] [U]；虛構的人（或事物）[C] A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
Myth (n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. -- Ld. Lytton.
Myth history, History made of, or mixed with, myths.
Myth (n.) A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.
Mythe (n.) See Myth. -- Grote. Mythic
Mythic (a.) Alt. of Mythical.
Mythical (a.) [Z] 神話的；神話般的；虛構的，杜撰出來的 Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful ; mythological. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv.
The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. -- Mrs. Browning.
Hengist
and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical
persons, whose very existence may be questioned. --
Macaulay.
Mythic (a.) Relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence."
Mythic (a.) Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological].
Mythographer (n.) 神話作者 A composer of fables.
Mythologer (n.) 神話學者 A mythologist.
Mythologian (n.) A mythologist. Mythologic
Mythologic (a.) Alt. of Mythological.
Mythological (a.) 神話的；虛構的 Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; as, mythological creatures. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Mythological (a.) 神話學的；神話的；虛構的 Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; mythical; fabulous.
Syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical.
Compare: Fabulous
Fabulous (a.) 驚人的；難以置信的；【口】極好的 Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
The fabulous birth of Minerva. -- Chesterfield.
Fabulous (a.) Beyond belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price. -- Macaulay.
Fabulous (a.) Exceptionally good; extremely pleasing. [informal]
Fabulous age, That period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome. -- Fab"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Fab"u*lous*ness, n.
Fabulous (a.) Extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn: fabulous, fab].
Fabulous (a.) Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological].
Fabulous (a.) Barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner."
Compare: Fictitious
Fictitious (a.) 虛構的；非真實的；假的，假裝的 Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. -- Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
Fictitious (a.) Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious].
Fictitious (a.) Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham].
Mythologic, Mythological (a.) 神話的, 虛構的 Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; as, mythological creatures. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Mythologic, Mythological (a.) Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; mythical; fabulous.
Syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical.
Mythologic (a.) Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: {fabulous}, {mythic}, {mythical}, {mythologic}, {mythological}].
Mythologist (n.) 神話學者 One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.
Mythologist (n.) An expert on mythology.
Mythologize (v. i.) 使成為神話 To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
Mythologize (v. t.) 當作神話 (v. i.) 編神話 To construct and propagate myths.
Mythologize (v.) Construct a myth; "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons" [syn: mythologize, mythologise].
Mythologize (v.) Make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66" [syn: mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise] [ant: demythologise, demythologize].
Mythologizer (n.) One who, or that which, mythologizes.
Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. -- Lowell.
Mythologue (n.) A fabulous narrative; a myth. [R.]
May we not . . . consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil? -- Geddes.
Mythologies (n. pl. ) of Mythology.
Mythology (n.) （總稱）神話 [U]；神話學 [U]；神話集 [C] The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
Mythology (n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
Mythology (n.) Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person.
Mythology (n.) The study of myths.
Mythology (n.) The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Mythoplasm (n.) A narration of mere fable.
Mythopoeic (a.) 創作神話的；神話時代的 Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. -- Grote.
Mythopoetic (a.) 創作神話的；神話時代的 Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
Mytiloid (a.) (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidae.
Mytilotoxine (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
Mytilus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.
Compare: Byssus
Byssus (n.; pl. E. Byssuses) （古埃及裹木乃伊用的）細孔亞麻布；【動】（貝類的）足絲 A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients.
It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [Written also byss and byssin.]
Byssus (n.; pl. E. Byssuses) (Zool.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.
Byssus (n.; pl. E. Byssuses) (Bot.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
Byssus (n.; pl. E. Byssuses) Asbestus.
Mytilus (n.) Type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels [syn: Mytilus, genus Mytilus].
Myxa (n.) (Zool.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.
Myxedema (n.) (Pathology) 【醫】黏液水腫 A condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism. Also Myxoedema.
Myxoedema (n.) (Med.) A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. [Also spelled myxedema.] -- Myx`oe*dem"a*tous, a., Myx`oe*dem"ic, a.
Myxedema (n.) (Med.) A pathological condition due to severe hyperthyroidism, marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental and physical deterioration. [Also spelled myxoedema.]
Myxedema (n.) Hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration [syn: myxedema, myxoedema].
Myxine (n.) (Zool.) A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.
Myxine (n.) Type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes) [syn: Myxine, genus Myxine].
Myxinoid (a.) (Zool.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine.
Myxinoid (n.) A hagfish.
Compare: Hagfish
Hagfish (n.) Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies [syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels].
Myxocystodea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
Myxomata (n. pl. ) of Myxoma.
Myxoma (n.) (Med.) 黏液瘤 A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
Myxopod (n.) (Zool.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.
Compare: Myxopod
Myxopod (n.) (Zool.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.
Myzontes (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Marsipobranchiata.
Myzostomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.