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

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign..

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

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

Pyrognostic :: Pyrognostic (a.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Divine :: Divine (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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