Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnostical
Literary usage of Gnostical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by the Late Mark Pattison: Sometime Rector of Lincoln College by Mark Pattison (1889)
"... speculative excitement which arose out of the collision of Greek with Oriental
ideas, and to which may be given the name of the gnostical Movement. a. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The gnostical spirit is present, but Gnosticism is as yet undeveloped. The apostolic
age is an age of transition, in which the speculative and ethical ..."
3. An Analytical Examination Into the Character, Value, and Just Application of by William Daniel Conybeare (1839)
"The ethical characters, however, attributed to this gnostical portrait of the
imaginary ... The specimen of the vaunted gnostical theology presented for our ..."
4. History of Christian Doctrine by George Park Fisher (1896)
"One of the marked effects of the gnostical theories was the influence exerted by
them in stimulating the development of theology within the limits of the ..."