Gnostic(a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.
    
    
    
        Gnostic(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the   Gnostic heresy.
    
    
    
        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.
    
    
    
        Gnosticism(n.) The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
    
    
    
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