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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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Prognostication :: Prognostication (n.) The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

Foreshow :: Foreshow (v. t.) To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

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

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

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)..

Priscillianist :: Priscillianist (n.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity..

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..

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

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

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

Geognostic :: Geognostic (a.) Alt. of Geognostica.

Gnostic :: Gnostic (a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.

Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.

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

Bodement :: Bodement (n.) An omen; a prognostic.

Valentinian :: Valentinian (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder..

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..

Soothsayer :: Soothsayer (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

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

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