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Orthostichy :: Orthostichy (n.) A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem..

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Soothsayer :: Soothsayer (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

Cerebroscopy :: Cerebroscopy (n.) Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope)..

Divine :: Divine (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

Predictional :: Predictional (a.) Prophetic; prognostic.

Postic :: Postic (a.) Backward.

Extispicious :: Extispicious (a.) Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

Agnostic :: Agnostic (n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc..

Monostichous :: Monostichous (a.) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae..

Foretoken :: Foretoken (n.) Prognostic; previous omen.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostica.

Acrostically :: Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.

Diagnostic :: Diagnostic (n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

Cerinthian :: Cerinthian (n.) One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics..

Prenostic :: Prenostic (n.) A prognostic; an omen.

Demiurge :: Demiurge (n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man..

Gnostic :: Gnostic (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons..

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..

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