LGAT buzzwords and Christian Churches
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Date: March 10, 2006 05:49AM
esoteric
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]
Esoteric \Es`o*ter"ic\ ([e^]s`[-o]*t[e^]"[i^]k), a. [Gr.
'eswteriko`s, fr. 'esw`teros inner, interior, comp. fr. 'e`sw
in, within, fr. 'es, e'is, into, fr. 'en in. See In.]
1. Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated
alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the
general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic;
-- said of discussions of technical topics and of the
private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of
philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
[1913 Webster]
landmark does have number one
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of
this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to
understand them. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
2. Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select;
confidential; as, an esoteric purpose; an esoteric
meeting.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
landmark does have number two
Esoteric \Es`o*ter"ic\, n. (Philos.)
(a) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy;
esoterics.
(b) One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric
doctrines or rites.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]
esoteric
adj : confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner
circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical
theories" [ant: exoteric]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "esoteric":
absolute, abstract, abstruse, anagogic, arcane, auricular,
between the lines, between us, cabalic, cabalistic, censored,
certain, classified, close, closed, concealed, concrete,
confidential, covert, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, defined,
definite, delitescent, detailed, determinate, different, distinct,
distinguished, dormant, eerie, enigmatic, especial, exceptional,
express, extramundane, extraordinary, extraterrestrial, fey, fixed,
heavy, hermetic, hibernating, hidden, hush-hush, hypernormal,
hyperphysical, immanent, implanted, implicit, in petto,
inalienable, individual, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent,
inner, inside, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, inwrought,
irreducible, latent, lurking, metaphysic, minute, muffled,
mysterious, mystic, not for publication, noteworthy, numinous,
obfuscated, obscured, occult, off the record, otherworldly,
particular, personal, possible, potential, precise, preterhuman,
preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, private, privileged,
profound, psychic, recondite, resident, respective, restricted,
sealed, secret, several, singular, sleeping, smothered,
solipsistic, special, specific, spiritual, stifled, subjective,
submerged, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
supersensible, supersensual, suppressed, supramundane,
supranatural, theosophical, theosophist, top secret,
transcendental, transmundane, ulterior, unalienable, unbreatheable,
unchallengeable, under privilege, under security,
under the surface, under wraps, underlying, undisclosable,
undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unearthly, unhuman,
unmanifested, unpublishable, unquestionable, unrevealable,
unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered,
unwhisperable, unworldly, veiled, virtual
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]
ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that
the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_,
those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most
profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in
our time.
yes landmark does have an agenda.