a. and sb. [? ad. med.L. anagōgic-us, a. Gr. ἀναγωγικ-ός mystical: see prec. and -IC. Cf. Fr. anagogique.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to anagoge; mystical, spiritualized.

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1388.  Wyclif, Isa., Prol. Anagogik [vndurstondyng of hooli scripture] techith what we owen to hope of euerlastyng meede in heuene.

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1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 118. The papists make their anagogic sense of Scripture correspondent to the Judaic Cabala.

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1849.  Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disp., 403. The mystic or spiritual … he says is either tropological, or anagogic, or allegorical.

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  B.  sb. [The adj. used absol.]

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  † 1.  ‘One skild in explaining the Scriptures.’ Cockeram, 1623. Obs.

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  2.  pl. Anagogics: anagogic studies, or practice; ‘mysterious considerations.’ T.

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1675.  L. Addison, State of Jews, 248 (T.). That the Misna Torah was composed out of the cabalisticks and anagogicks of the Jews.

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