See Also: mystagogue(dictionary)

mystagogue (iou)



mystagogue noun. M16.
[French, or Latin mystagogus from Greek mustagogos, from mustes (see MYSTIC) + agogos leading, from agein to lead.]
In ancient Greece, a person who gave preparatory instruction to candidates for initiation into the Eleusinian or other mysteries; gen. a person who introduces others to religious mysteries, a teacher of mystical doctrines, a creator or disseminator of mystical doctrines.
mysta'goguery noun the doctrines or practices of a mystagogue E20.