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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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Elcesaite :: Elcesaite (n.) One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

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

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

Prognosticator :: Prognosticator (n.) One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

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

Agnostic :: Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

Prognostication :: Prognostication (n.) That which foreshows; a foretoken.

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..

Prognosticable :: Prognosticable (a.) Capable of being prognosticated or foretold.

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies..

Ophite :: Ophite (a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

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

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..

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

Nescience :: Nescience (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

Prognostic :: Prognostic (v. t.) To prognosticate.

Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..

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

Prognostic :: Prognostic (a.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.

Foreholding :: Foreholding (n.) Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.