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(1):

(a.) 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.

(2):

(a.) Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential; as, an esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.

(3):

(n.) One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.

(4):

(n.) An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy; esoterics.