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

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

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..

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

Dignotion :: Dignotion (n.) Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.

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

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

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

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..

Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

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

Prognosticated :: Prognosticated (imp. & p. p.) of Prognosticat.

Heracleonite :: Heracleonite (n.) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church..

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

Onomatechny :: Onomatechny (n.) Prognostication by the letters of a name.

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

Superstition :: Superstition (n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like..

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)..

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..

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