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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -gnostic-, *gnostic*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
gnostic(adj) เกี่ยวกับองค์ความรู้, See also: เกี่ยวกับภูมิปัญญา, Syn. cognitive, intellectual

WordNet (3.0)
gnostic(n) an advocate of Gnosticism
gnostic(adj) of or relating to Gnosticism, Example: Gnostic writings
gnostic(adj) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things, Ant. agnostic
gnosticism(n) a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Gnostic

a. 1. Knowing; wise; shrewd. [ Old Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gnostic

n. [ L. gnosticus, Gr. &unr_; good at knowing, sagacious; as a n., man that claims to have a deeper wisdom, fr. gignw`skein to know: cf. F. gnostique. See Know. ] (Eccl. Hist.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gnosticism

n. The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics. [ 1913 Webster ]

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