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Webster 1913 Edition

Mysterious

Mys-te′ri-ous

,
Adj.
[F.
mystèrieux
. See 1st
Mystery
.]
Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.
God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,
Thought in
mysterious
terms.
Milton.
Syn. – Obscure; secret; occult; dark; mystic; cabalistic; enigmatical; unintelligible; inexplicable; incomprehensible.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mysterious

MYSTE'RIOUS

,
Adj.
[See Mystery.] Obscure; hid from the understanding; not clearly understood. The birth and connections of the man with the iron mask in France are mysterious, and have never been explained.
1.
In religion, obscure; secret; not revealed or explained; hidden from human understanding, or unintelligible; beyond human comprehension. Applied to the divine counsels and government, the word often implies something awfully obscure; as, the ways of God are often mysterious.

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