gnosticizev.
/ˈnɒstɪsʌɪz/ a. intransitive. To adopt or expound Gnostic views.
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1664 H. 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.
1840 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Regeneration xviii Let all the Fathers..gnosticise ever so copiously on Fasting and Celibacy.
b. transitive. To interpret on Gnostic principles; to give or impute a Gnostic character to.
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1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 31 Clement would gnosticise his words as spiritually and covertly importing: I cultivate [etc.].
1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind I. 108 The writers of those Ophite books were acquainted with the Gospel [of St. John] and attempted to Gnosticize it.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 854/2 Attempts to Christianize paganism, to conciliate Judaism, or to gnosticize Christianity.
Derivatives
ˈgnosticizing n. and adj.
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1840 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Regeneration xvi They..occupied themselves, not very profitably, in gnosticising upon the virtues of Celibacy.
1842 G. S. Faber 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.].
ˈgnosticizer n. one who gnosticizes.
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1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 234/1 The doctrine..taught by the Gnosticizers at Colossae.
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