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ANAGOGY

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or ANAGOGIE, among Ecclesiastical Writers, the elevation of the mind to things celestial and eternal.β€”It is particularly used, where words, in their natural or primary meaning, denote something sensible, but have a further view to something spiritual or invisible.

in a more particular sense, denotes the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New; thus called, because the veil being here drawn, what before was hidden is exposed to open sight.