| Marcid | a. [ L. marcidus, fr. marcere to wither, pine. ] 1. Pining; lean; withered. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Marcionite | n. (Eccl. Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ] |
