To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
Intricacy; complication.
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.
A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; - usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.
A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
