[L. anagōgē, a. Gr. ἀναγωγή elevation, religious or ecstatic elevation, mystical sense; f. ἀν-άγ-ειν to lead up, lift up, elevate. See also ANAGOGY.]
† 1. Spiritual elevation or enlightenment, esp., to understand mysteries. Obs.
1706. Phillips, Anagoge, a raising of the mind to search out the hidden Meaning of any Passage; especially the Mystical Sense of the Holy Scriptures.
1721. So in Bailey.
1751. in Chambers: see ANAGOGY. Not in J.
2. Mystical or spiritual interpretation; an Old Testament typification of something in the New.
1849. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disp., 407. We should form a like judgment of the type or anagoge.
