anagogics

Ancient Greek

anagogics (uncountable)

1. Mystical interpretations or studies, especially of the Scriptures.
   • 1675, Lancelot Addison, The Present State of the Jews:

     As is to be seen Novella 146, where the Notes upon that Conſtitution ſay , that the Miſna Torab was Compoſed out of the Caballiſticks and Anagogicks of the Jews, or ſome allegorical interpretations, pretended to be derived from Moses.

• anagoge, anagogy

• “anagogics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Caggianos