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Definition of gnostic

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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..

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Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

Gnosis :: Gnosis (n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics..

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

Prognosticating :: Prognosticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prognosticat.

Diagnosticate :: Diagnosticate (v. t. & i.) To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease..

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

Aruspicy :: Aruspicy (n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

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..

Augur :: Augur (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

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..

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.

Foretoken :: Foretoken (v. t.) To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

Sooth :: Sooth (a.) Augury; prognostication.

Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs..

Diagnose :: Diagnose (v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.

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

Augury :: Augury (n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.

Impeccable :: Impeccable (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness..

Harioiation :: Harioiation (n.) Prognostication; soothsaying.