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esoteric (iou) and livelihead (iou)


esoteric (iou)



esoteric adjective & noun. M17.
[Greek esoterikos, from esotero inner, compar. of eso within, from es, eis into: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
(Of a philosophical doctrine, mode of speech, etc.) designed for or appropriate to an inner circle of advanced or privileged disciples; communicated or intelligible only to the initiated; (of a person) initiated into or belonging to an inner circle. Opp. EXOTERIC adjective 1. M17.
Esoteric Buddhism a system of theosophical doctrines alleged to have been transmitted by an inner circle of Buddhists.
M. Hunter The magician is an esoteric figurepart priest, part philosopher, part artist. G. Murray Unless we are to interpret the word 'poetry' in some esoteric sense of our own. P. Larkin The esoteric areas of Neoplatonic symbolism..and the history of inner literary conventions. H. Acton This passion for reading set her apart from her sisters though she shared their esoteric jokes.
Not openly stated or admitted; confidential; secret. M19.
Ld Macaulay His esoteric project was the original project of Christopher Columbus. A. M. Fairbairn Strauss had hardly the stuff in him to be an exoteric Conservative while an esoteric Radical.
b. noun.
A person initiated into esoteric doctrines. M17.
In pl. Esoteric doctrines or treatises. E18.
esoterical adjective esoteric M19.
esoterically adverb M18.

livelihead (iou)



livelihead noun.LME.
[from LIVELY adjective + -HEAD.]
Liveliness; vivacity. LME-E18.
b. Living form. Also, condition of being alive. M-L16.
Means of living; inheritance; livelihood. L15-L16.