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gnosticize, v.|ˈnɒstɪsaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. intr. To adopt or expound Gnostic views.
b. trans. To interpret on Gnostic principles; to give or impute a Gnostic character to.
1664H. More Expos. 7 Epist. 37 Too many began to Gnosticize, as it is called, in that point, and think it a small thing to deny the Faith in the time of Persecution. 1840G. S. Faber Regenerat. xviii, Let all the Fathers..gnosticise ever so copiously on Fasting and Celibacy. 1842― Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 31 Clement would gnosticise his words as spiritually and covertly importing: I cultivate [etc.]. 1851Bunsen Hippolytus (1854) I. 108 The writers of those Ophite books were acquainted with the Gospel [of St. John] and attempted to Gnosticize it. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 854/2 Attempts to Christianize paganism, to conciliate Judaism, or to gnosticize Christianity.
Hence ˈgnosticizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˈgnosticizer, one who gnosticizes.
1840G. S. Faber Regenerat. xvi, They..occupied themselves, not very profitably, in gnosticising upon the virtues of Celibacy. 1842― Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 49 Under the new and gnosticising aspect of its being inherently a State of greater Moral Purity and Perfection than [etc.]. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (ed. 2) 170 The doctrine..taught by the Gnosticizers at Colossae. |