ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The… — The Devil's Dictionary
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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.
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