mystagoguery
/ˈmɪstəɡɒɡ(ə)ri/noun
Initiation into mysteries; instruction in arcane knowledge preparatory to such initiation. Often derogatory with suggestion of obscurantism, charlatanism, etc.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The Observer. From mystagogue + -ery.
- Bloody Bones
- Bloody Caesar
- bloody chasm
- bloody cranesbill
- bloody dock
- bloody finger
- bloody flag
- bloody flux
- bloody grave
- bloody hand
- Bloody Indian
- bloody man's finger
- Bloody Mary
- bloody men's finger
- bloody-minded
- bloody-mindedly
- bloody-mindedness
- bloody-nose beetle
- bloody-nosed beetle
- bloody (or bloodied) but unbowed
- bloody rain
- Bloody Statute
- Bloody Sunday
- bloody water
- blood–brain barrier