a. Obs. [ad. Gr. τελεστικός, f. τελεστής hierophant in the mysteries, f. τελεῖν: see TELESM.] Of or pertaining to the mysteries, or to a hierophant; mystical.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 293. Julian, in the time of Marcus Antoninus … wrote the Theurgick and Telestick Oracles in Verse. Ibid., 792.
1788. T. Taylor, Proclus, I. 19. By the highest and most mystical step, he ascended to the greatest and most consummate or telestic virtues. Ibid. (1822), Apuleius, XI. 276, note. As the telestic art, through certain symbols and arcane signatures, assimilates statues to the Gods.
