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

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

Prognosticate :: Prognosticate (v. t.) To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil..

Forebode :: Forebode (n.) Prognostication; presage.

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

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

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

Presage :: Presage (v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

Pyrognostics :: Pyrognostics (n. pl.) The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc..

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

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

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..

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

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

Gnostic :: 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..

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

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

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

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