Crossword-Solution: GNOSTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GNOSTIC | anagram | COSTING |
We have 25 clues for the answer “GNOSTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | 1 answer |
| Spiritual rejector of the material world | 1 answer |
| Of spiritual knowledge | 1 answer |
| Having esoteric spiritual knowledge | 1 answer |
| CHRISTIAN heretic | 1 answer |
| Believer that matter is evil | 1 answer |
| Believer in a demiurge | 1 answer |
| Believer in a God separate from, and greater than, a deity creating the natural world | 1 answer |
| 2d century sectarian. | 1 answer |
| Relating to knowledge | 2 answers |
| insighted | 3 answers |
| Having knowledge | 3 answers |
| Early Christian | 6 answers |
| cognitive | 10 answers |
| sophic | 11 answers |
| Occultist | 30 answers |
| Insightful | 35 answers |
| intuitive | 49 answers |
| Knowledgeable | 56 answers |
| Astute | 69 answers |
| Perceptive | 70 answers |
| Discerning | 76 answers |
| Shrewd | 80 answers |
| Wise | 84 answers |
| Knowing | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
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Sentences with GNOSTIC (5)
There is a definite strain of mystical, almost Gnostic sensibility that shows up even among those hackers not actively involved with neo-paganism, Discordianism, or Zen.
Fourier, who held peculiar ideas concerning the visions of somnambulists, and who believed in the possibility of developing the magnetic power to such an extent as to enable us to commune with invisible beings, might, if he were living, pass also for a Gnostic.
The Gnostic and Manichaean struggles had ripened the theologic idea that, although at times diseases are punishments by the Almighty, the main agency in them is Satanic.
The relations which exist between this doctrine and the records which remain to us of that of the Orientals, the Chaldean and Persian, have been the source of the errors of the Gnostic Christians, who wished to reconcile their ancient notions with their new belief.
The speculative tenets of the sect, concerning the person of Christ, and the nature of the human soul, were derived from the Gnostic and Manichaean system; and this vain philosophy, which had been transported from Egypt to Spain, was ill adapted to the grosser spirits of the West.
Quotes with GNOSTIC (3)
Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him. The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dil…
If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences.
Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2019).