See mysterical on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mystery",
"3": "-ical"
},
"expansion": "mystery + -ical",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mystery + -ical.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more mysterical",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most mysterical",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mysterical (comparative more mysterical, superlative most mysterical)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ical",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1707, Le Wright, The Soul the Body at the Last-Day, Proved from Holy-Writ: Refuting the Common Receiv'd Opinion, That We ſhall be Judged in Our Corruptible Bodies, page 15:",
"text": "The Dead in Spirit is one thing, and the Dead in our Conſumed Fleſh is another; And thoſe that became the firſt Fruits of them that Slept. This I take to be the Myſterical Body.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1766, Thomas Sadler, “Bunch Hesperus: or, The Mock-Artist: A Burleſque Poem.”, in Poems on various subjects. To which is added, The merry miller: or, The country-man's ramble to London, a farce, page 101:",
"text": "Old Darby ſo I ſhall him call, / Dreamed a Dream myſterical; / Which ſorely did torment his Thought, / Bewilder'd in a Trap was caught.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1798, Alexander Campbell, “Additional Notes, Omissions, &c.”, in An introduction to the history of poetry in Scotland, page 365:",
"text": "“Song V. The bleſſed Bethlemite,” is devided into twelve ſections, in alphabetical order, containing the types, titles, attributes, &c. of Chriſt ; to which is prefixed a table, exhibiting at one view theſe myſterical names.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1823 January 11, “Winter in Spitzbergen”, in The Minerva, volume 1, number 40, Arts and Sciences, page 318:",
"text": "They are so strong in the arm, that they can draw a bow which a stout Norwegian can hardly bend ; yet lazy even to torpidity, when not incited by necessity ; and pusillanimous and nervous to a mysterical degree.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1949, Paul Einzig, “Iron sword currency on Britain” (chapter 14), in Primitive Money: In Its Ethnological, Historical and Economic Aspects, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Book II: Historical, Part I: Ancient Period, page 246:",
"text": "The fact that they were invariably found with animal remains certainly does indicate some mysterical use in sacrifice or sepulchural rites.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November, Guillermo M. Jodra, On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 88:",
"text": "Independently of the nature of these contacts—sequential or parallel—the thought of this philosopher represents a living link between ancient mysterical cults, Greek philosophy, and monotheism.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Mysterious, mystic."
],
"id": "en-mysterical-en-adj-Sfm2HnnO",
"links": [
[
"Mysterious",
"mysterious"
],
[
"mystic",
"mystic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Mysterious, mystic."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"word": "mysterical"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mystery",
"3": "-ical"
},
"expansion": "mystery + -ical",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From mystery + -ical.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more mysterical",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most mysterical",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mysterical (comparative more mysterical, superlative most mysterical)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ical",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1707, Le Wright, The Soul the Body at the Last-Day, Proved from Holy-Writ: Refuting the Common Receiv'd Opinion, That We ſhall be Judged in Our Corruptible Bodies, page 15:",
"text": "The Dead in Spirit is one thing, and the Dead in our Conſumed Fleſh is another; And thoſe that became the firſt Fruits of them that Slept. This I take to be the Myſterical Body.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1766, Thomas Sadler, “Bunch Hesperus: or, The Mock-Artist: A Burleſque Poem.”, in Poems on various subjects. To which is added, The merry miller: or, The country-man's ramble to London, a farce, page 101:",
"text": "Old Darby ſo I ſhall him call, / Dreamed a Dream myſterical; / Which ſorely did torment his Thought, / Bewilder'd in a Trap was caught.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1798, Alexander Campbell, “Additional Notes, Omissions, &c.”, in An introduction to the history of poetry in Scotland, page 365:",
"text": "“Song V. The bleſſed Bethlemite,” is devided into twelve ſections, in alphabetical order, containing the types, titles, attributes, &c. of Chriſt ; to which is prefixed a table, exhibiting at one view theſe myſterical names.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1823 January 11, “Winter in Spitzbergen”, in The Minerva, volume 1, number 40, Arts and Sciences, page 318:",
"text": "They are so strong in the arm, that they can draw a bow which a stout Norwegian can hardly bend ; yet lazy even to torpidity, when not incited by necessity ; and pusillanimous and nervous to a mysterical degree.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1949, Paul Einzig, “Iron sword currency on Britain” (chapter 14), in Primitive Money: In Its Ethnological, Historical and Economic Aspects, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Book II: Historical, Part I: Ancient Period, page 246:",
"text": "The fact that they were invariably found with animal remains certainly does indicate some mysterical use in sacrifice or sepulchural rites.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November, Guillermo M. Jodra, On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 88:",
"text": "Independently of the nature of these contacts—sequential or parallel—the thought of this philosopher represents a living link between ancient mysterical cults, Greek philosophy, and monotheism.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Mysterious, mystic."
],
"links": [
[
"Mysterious",
"mysterious"
],
[
"mystic",
"mystic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Mysterious, mystic."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"word": "mysterical"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mysterical meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.