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–adjective Also, gnos·ti·cal.

1.	pertaining to knowledge.

2.	possessing knowledge, esp. esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters.

3.	(initial capital letter) pertaining to or characteristic of the Gnostics.

–noun

4.	(initial capital letter) a member of any of certain sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead.

[Origin: 1555–65; < LL Gnōsticī (pl.) name of the sect < Gk gnōstikós (sing.) pertaining to knowledge, equiv. to gnōst(ós) known + -ikos -ic

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—Related forms

gnos·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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Gnos·tic Audio Help (nŏs'tĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj.

gnostic Of, relating to, or possessing intellectual or spiritual knowledge.
Of or relating to Gnosticism.

n. A believer in Gnosticism.

[Late Latin Gnōsticus, a Gnostic, from Late Greek Gnōstikos, from Greek gnōstikos, concerning knowledge, from gnōsis, knowledge; see gnosis.]

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Gnostic

c.1585, from L.L. gnosticus, from Late Gk. gnostikos, noun use of adj. gnostikos "knowing, able to discern," from gnostos "knowable," from gignoskein "to learn, to come to know" (see know). Applied to various early Christian sects that claimed direct personal knowledge beyond the Gospel or the Church hierarchy. The adj. meaning "relating to knowledge" (with lower-case g-) is from 1656.

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gnostic
adjective
1.	of or relating to Gnosticism; "Gnostic writings"
2.	possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things [ant: agnostic]
noun
1.	an advocate of Gnosticism

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Gnostic

Gnos"tic\, a. 1. Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang]

I said you were a gnostic fellow. --Sir W. Scott.

2. (Eccl. Hist.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

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Gnostic

Gnos"tic\, n. [L. gnosticus, Gr. ? good at knowing, sagacious; as a n., man that claims to have a deeper wisdom, fr. gignw`skein to know: cf. F. gnostique. See Know.] (Eccl. Hist.) 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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