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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Presage :: Presage (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Dignotion :: Dignotion (n.) Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
Predictional :: Predictional (a.) Prophetic; prognostic.
Diagnosticate :: Diagnosticate (v. t. & i.) To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease..
Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
Extispicious :: Extispicious (a.) Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.
Harioiation :: Harioiation (n.) Prognostication; soothsaying.
Diagnose :: Diagnose (v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.
Prognostication :: Prognostication (n.) The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.
Foretoken :: Foretoken (n.) Prognostic; previous omen.
Elcesaite :: Elcesaite (n.) One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.
Onomatechny :: Onomatechny (n.) Prognostication by the letters of a name.
Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divine :: Divine (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
Foreholding :: Foreholding (n.) Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
Impeccable :: Impeccable (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness..
Gnosis :: Gnosis (n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics..
Heracleonite :: Heracleonite (n.) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church..
Bodement :: Bodement (n.) An omen; a prognostic.
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies..
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