anagogisk

Swedish

Adjective

anagogisk

  1. (rare) anagogic, anagogical
    • 1909, Yrjö Hirn, Det heliga skrinet‎[1], Söderström & C:o förlagsaktiebolag, accessed at Litteraturbanken, courtesy of Kungl. biblioteket, archived from the original on 12 August 2025, page 85:
      De »anagogiska» och »tropologiska» hänsyftningarna torde ha [förblivit] obegripliga för flertalet lekmän.
      The "anagogical" and "tropological" allusions must have remained incomprehensible to most laymen.
    • 1979, Alf Härdelin, “Fyra sätt att läsa bibeln”, in Signum‎[2], number 3, archived from the original on 24 January 2025:
      Det finns, säger de, en historisk, en allegorisk, en tropologisk och en anagogisk påsk.
      There is, they say, a historical, an allegorical, a tropological, and an anagogical Easter.
    • 2010, Lars Cavallin, transl., Katolska kyrkans katekes‎[3], Catholica, archived from the original on 3 December 2024, §117:
      Den anagogiska betydelsen: På samma sätt är det möjligt att se den eviga innebörden av tingen och händelserna, så att de leder oss fram [...] till vårt himmelska hemland. Så är kyrkan på jorden tecken på det himmelska Jerusalem.
      The anagogical sense. Likewise, it is possible to view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our heavenly homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Declension

Inflection of anagogisk
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular anagogisk — —
neuter singular anagogiskt — —
plural anagogiska — —
masculine plural2 anagogiske — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 anagogiske — —
all anagogiska — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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