a person who uses prayer and meditation to try to become united with God or to understand important things that are beyond normal human understanding潜修者；神秘主义者Topics Religion and festivalsc2Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘mystical meaning’): from Old French mystique, or via Latin from Greek mustikos, from mustēs ‘initiated person’ from muein ‘close the eyes or lips’, also ‘initiate’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 17th cent.