Definition of gnostic
- a. - Knowing; wise; shrewd.
- a. - Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the
Gnostic heresy.
- 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.