"Gnostic" is a word in ENGLISH
Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the
Gnostic heresy.
Knowing; wise; shrewd.
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.
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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A Christian sect without a leader.
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Read the complete definitionIn the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887.
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Read the complete definitionOf or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, …
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Read the complete definitionOpposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
Read the complete definitionOne of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.
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Read the complete definitionIn English law. The total renunciatlon of Christianity, by embracing either a false religion or no religion at all. This …
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Read the complete definitionIn clvll and old Engllsh law. An apostate; a deserter from the faith; one who has renounced the Christian faith. …
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Read the complete definitionOne of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
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