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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 matter?" I whispered back impatiently. I do not relish mystery and I detest being ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... upon its walls in the repose of a thousand years, the rude and gaudy mosaics, and above all the captured horses of Corinth which start from out the sombre mass in the glory of Grecian art, received from the solemn and appropriate light, a character of melancholy and mystery, that well comported with the thick recollections which crowd the mind as the eye gazes at this rare relic ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... clear up this mystery. It is certain that I sent the old woman Lu to you with your little slipper. ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli
... step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could ...
— The Judas Valley • Gerald Vance
... sources of his good humour to be precisely that his success was independent of that. He had none the less become in a manner the fashion; the critics at least had put on a spurt and caught up with him. We had found out at last how clever he was, and he had had to make the best of the loss of his mystery. I was strongly tempted, as I walked beside him, to let him know how much of that unveiling was my act; and there was a moment when I probably should have done so had not one of the ladies of our party, ...
— Embarrassments • Henry James


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