Mystagogue

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who prepares candidates for initiation into a mystery cult.
  • n. One who holds or spreads mystical doctrines.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult, or who teaches mystical doctrines
  • n. One who keeps and shows church relics.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.
  • n. One who keeps and shows church relics.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who instructs in or interprets mysteries; one who initiates.
  • n. Specifically, in the early church, the priest who prepared candidates for initiation into the sacred mysteries.
  • n. One who keeps church relics and shows them to strangers.
  • Word Usage
    "The largest and most valuable, had I been sensible of such things was a book of marvels by "the most miraculous mystagogue of nature": China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, by Athanasius Kircher."