Adjective : anagogic image; anagogic interpretation.    From Dictionary.com. 

She was an anagogical writer, of that there is no doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flannery | clusterflock] Reference

Cassian, who set forth a system of historical (literal), tropological (moral), allegorical, and anagogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

On the second point: the historical, the aetiological, and the anagogical are all three interpretations of the one literal interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Potkay's decision to focus only on the tropological leaves the question of the anagogical unaddressed, but, as Potkay has recently argued in "History ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'] Reference

It seems that one passage of sacred Scripture cannot have several interpretations, such as the historical or literal, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Many are drawn deeply into his otherworldly, anagogical music, which synthesizes devout Catholicism; a guileless, naturalistic attitude rooted in his rural upbringing; and a rigorous formal training in harmony and counterpoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO] Reference

The fascination of religious symbolism crept over minds that had hardly yet begun to see and understand things as they are; and in all their reading the "moral," "anagogical," and "tropological" significations prevailed against the literal sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Augustine had set a precedent by insisting on the priority of the literal sense of scripture over the other, higher meanings: the allegorical, which concerns what is believed; the anagogical, which concerns what is hoped for; and the tropological, which concerns moral conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation] Reference

Instead, as exemplified by the theologians associated with the Abbey of Saint-Victor during the twelfth century, a devotional concern rein - forced by a mystic sense of the levels of meaning and of reality, led sensitive thinkers to contemplate the various senses — literal, allegorical, moral, anagogical — in which Scripture could enrich spirituality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

They also were all over the Coleridgean ideas and anagogical artistry in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hogwarts Professor] Reference

What absence of that anagogical, all-prevalent, all-winsome Brahminism in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

But I said this anagogical sense was hard to be attained to and difficult of comprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

The elaborate exposition by Honorius of Autun of the book in its historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical meanings deserves special mention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The anagogical level of meaning in the Aeschylus is best understood when reading it alongside the Penn and in the context of the eye / mirror symbolism of.    From Wordnik.com.  [HogwartsProfessor.com] Reference

I thought I lived any where between the sky and this most anagogical rotundity, and have been entertaining my later years with soap-bubbling a few divinities —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

Dumbledore's answer and the allegorical and anagogical meaning of Harry's alchemical adventures as the "Seeing Eye" beneath the Invisibility Cloak both tell us that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [HogwartsProfessor.com] Reference

The anagogical or metaphysical aspects, as Ruskin writes, may be reserved for those "who themselves in some measure see visions and dream dreams," but they're there for the more meditative reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [HogwartsProfessor.com] Reference

The schoolmen, with purely dogmatic interest, had developed a hopeless and fantastic exegesis, by which every text of Scripture was given a fourfold sense, the historical, allegorical, tropological (or figurative) and anagogical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of the Reformation] Reference

What Dante, Spenser, and Ruskin are after is the traditional four levels of meaning traditionally ascribed to the world, scripture, and art; Dante details this (after Aquinas) in his letter to Cangrande as the literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogical meanings.    From Wordnik.com.  [HogwartsProfessor.com] Reference

Settling with her head snuggled against her fur tippet, the back of her neck against the chair top, Lilly could feel herself recede, as it were, into a sort of anagogical half consciousness, laved and carried along on currents of melody that were as sensually delicious as a warm bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star-Dust] Reference

A mysterious soul, anagogical, the Master calls it, and all I could do was to play to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

Thus Hugo St. Victor includes the anagogical under the allegorical, naming only the historical, the allegorical, and the tropological (Sentences 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

“I know he dislikes me, and I have been moved to dislike him, and I suppose I should if I did not feel what a ridiculous piece of business it is for one most anagogical puppet to be mad with another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

(15) From the former two of these have been drawn certain senses and expositions of Scriptures, which had need be contained within the bounds of sobriety — the one anagogical, and the other philosophical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

Wilhelm Reich and promoting a critique of both capitalist and communist erotophobia using the theatrical antics of Tuli Kupferberg juxtaposed with a series of interconnecting, vaguely anagogical, fictional plots, "writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

(15) From the former two of these have been drawn certain senses and expositions of Scriptures, which had need be contained within the bounds of sobriety -- the one anagogical, and the other philosophical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

"anagogical," the "allegorical," and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons to Believe -] Reference

“The unsophisticated, megalopsychal, anagogical Lachrymæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference