Definition of Esotiric
Esoteric, a term used to denote teaching intended only for the
initiated, and intelligible only to them.
- Wikipedia
Es`o*ter"ic (?), a. Marked by
secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential; as, an
esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.
Es`o*ter"ic, n. (Philos.)
(a) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric
philosophy; esoterics. (b) One who
believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.
Es`o*ter"ic (&ebreve;s`&osl;*t&ebreve;"&ibreve;k),
a. [Gr. 'eswteriko`s, fr.
'esw`teros inner, interior, comp. fr. 'e`sw in,
within, fr. 'es, e'is, into, fr. 'en
in. See In.] 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.
Es`o*ter"ic (?), a. Marked by
secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential; as, an
esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.
Es`o*ter"ic, n. (Philos.)
(a) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric
philosophy; esoterics. (b) One who
believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- exoteric, those that
the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric,
those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most
profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in
our time.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application.
- Understood only by a chosen few or an inner circle.
- Confidential; private.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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