Definition of gnostic

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Gnostic (a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy..

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Onomatechny :: Onomatechny (n.) Prognostication by the letters of a name.
Nescience :: Nescience (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
Marcosian :: Marcosian (n.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician..
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..
Marcionite :: Marcionite (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation..
Pyrognostic :: Pyrognostic (a.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena..
Geognostical :: Geognostical (a.) Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological..
Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
Indifferentism :: Indifferentism (n.) State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism..
Agnostic :: Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
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..
Impeccable :: Impeccable (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness..
Gnostic :: Gnostic (a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy..
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)..
Prognosticating :: Prognosticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prognosticat.
Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction..
Augur :: Augur (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
Boding :: Boding (n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
Demiurge :: Demiurge (n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man..
Gnosis :: Gnosis (n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics..
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