Definition of gnostic
English to English adjective - of or relating to Gnosticism
Gnostic writings.
source: WordNet 3.0 - possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things
source: WordNet 3.0 - Knowing; wise; shrewd.
source: Webster 1913 noun - an advocate of Gnosticism
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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.
source: Webster 1913
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