a. [f. prec. + -AL.]
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., I. iii. 128. This was his [Coleridge’s] esoterical opinion of him.
1876. Birch, Monum. Hist. Egypt, 42. Walls covered with mythological representations and esoterical texts, explanatory of the old religion.
2. In etymological nonce-use: (see quot.)
1850. Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos., I. i. § 3. 27. When by esoterical we mean that which concerns the inner man.
