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秘教的,奥秘的,秘传的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Esoteric \Es`o*ter"ic\, a.
   Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential;
   as, an esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.

Esoteric \Es`o*ter"ic\, n. (Philos.)
   (a) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy;
       esoterics.
   (b) One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric
       doctrines or rites.

Esoteric \Es`o*ter"ic\ ([e^]s`[-o]*t[e^]"[i^]k), a. [Gr.
   'eswteriko`s, fr. 'esw`teros inner, interior, comp. fr. 'e`sw
   in, within, fr. 'es, e'is, into, fr. 'en in. See {In}.]
   Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated
   alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general
   body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of
   the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of
   philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.

         Enough if every age produce two or three critics of
         this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to
         understand them.                         --De Quincey.

资料来源 : WordNet®

esoteric
     adj : confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner
           circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical
           theories" [ant: {exoteric}]