teˈlestic, a. rare.
[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. 1822 ― Apuleius xi. 276 note, As the telestic art, through certain symbols and arcane signatures, assimilates statues to the Gods. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 79/5 Plato's four types of mania (telestic, or ritual; mantic or divinatory; poetic; and erotic). |