Mŷs'ti-cism, n.

n. [Fr. mysticisme.]

1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who profess a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintain that they have direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and acquire a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.