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anagogical

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an·a·go·ge also an·a·go·gy  (n-gj)
n. pl. an·a·go·ges also an·a·go·gies
A mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text, especially scriptural exegesis that detects allusions to heaven or the afterlife.
[Late Latin anagg, from Late Greek, spiritual uplift, from anagein, to lift up : ana-, ana- + agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]
ana·gogic (-gjk), ana·gogi·cal adj.
ana·gogi·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.anagogical - based on or exemplifying anagoge
anagogic


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Appropriation was worked out in a set of ways, including allegory and typology, to show meaning as phased or multiple: starting and rooted in some literal/historical sense but flowing (in whatever way) into other more significant spiritual levels called allegorical, tropological, and anagogical.
This old text: an analogy for biblical interpretation by Green, Barbara / Biblical Theology Bulletin
This poem also reveals Hopkins's almost painful sensitivity to the "inscapes" of his environment, to his anagogical keenness in bringing meaning to and from the natural world.
Ecological conscience in Hopkins's "God's Grandeur" by Wright, William (English priest) / Academic Exchange Quarterly
In that it has meaning it bypasses the customary modes of the literal or metaphorical and inhabits Dante's final category of signification, the anagogical, where form embodies truth directly, making as it were a spiritual equation.
Ornament on trial. (Royal Academy Forum) by Phillips, Tom / The Architectural Review
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