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mysterious (adj.)
1610s, "full of mystery," from Latin
mysterium
(see
mystery
(n.1)) +
-ous
. Related:
Mysteriously
;
mysteriousness
. Earlier in same sense was
mysterial
(early 15c.), from Late Latin
mysterialis
.