What is the meaning of MYSTERIES. Phrases containing MYSTERIES
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Sausages, called that because many didn't know what they were made of.
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One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.
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A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
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A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.
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The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion.
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One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.
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A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
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Pertaining to the goddess Isis; as, Isiac mysteries.
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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.
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Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
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An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
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To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
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The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.
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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.
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The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
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Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
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of Mystery
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interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.
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Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
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of Mystery
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One presiding over mysteries.
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