Es'o-tĕr'ic, a.

a. [Gr. ἐσωτερικός, from ἔσωτερος, inner, interior, comparative from ἔσω, εἴσω, in, within.] Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroatic — said of the private instruction, and doctrines of philosophers; — opposed to exoteric or public.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.