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Webster 1913 Edition
Esoteric
Esˊo-ter′ic
(ĕsˊō̍-tĕ′ĭk)
, Adj.
[Gr.
ἐσωτερικός
, fr. ἐσώτεροσ
inner, interior, comp. fr. ἔσω
in, within, fr. ἐς
, εἰς
, into, fr. ἐν
in. See In
.] 1.
Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; – said of discussions of technical topics and of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to
exoteric
. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this
esoteric
class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Esoteric
ESOT'ERIC
,Adj.