Definitions for Gnostic

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Gnostic gnos·tic

Spelling: [nos-tik]

IPA: /ˈnɒs tɪk/

Gnostic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in Gnostic (cginost).

Definitions for Gnostic

noun

1. (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.

adjective

1. pertaining to knowledge.
2. possessing knowledge, especially esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters.
3. (initial capital letter) pertaining to or characteristic of the Gnostics.

Origin of Gnostic

1555-65; Late Latin Gnōsticī (plural) name of the sect Greek gnōstikós (singular) pertaining to knowledge, equivalent to gnōst(ós) known + -ikos -ic

Examples for Gnostic

He who is conversant with all kinds of wisdom will be pre-eminently a gnostic.

The remainder (of gnostic philosophy) may well be contrasted with ours.

And here the gnostic interest was at hand with an opportune idea.

The letter is filled with all the venom and bitterness of the gnostic quarrels.

Omnia subito is not its device, but that of the gnostic heresy.

In short, according to Reitzenstein, Paul was a true "gnostic."

The spread and influence of the gnostic sects was notoriously wide.

Similarly the g in gnostic, the e in eulogy, p in pneumonia, the h in chromatic.

M. Papus speaks of him as the founder and patriarch of the gnostic Church.

We also have the gnostic Gospels, discovered in 1947 and adding a wealth of insights into early Christian thinking.