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Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines

Additional info about word: ESOTERIC

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to ESOTERIC)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• COMMUNICATIVENESS
  The quality of being communicative. Norris.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• ALONENESS
  A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• INTERIORLY
  Internally; inwardly.
• COMMUNICATIVE
  Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• INTELLIGIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• INITIATORY
  1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall. 2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
• RECONDITE
  of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re- re- + 1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things. 2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
  Imparting or communicating by its own powers.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• INCOMMUNICATING
  Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Sir M. Hale.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.