Definition of Gnostical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnostical

gnomons
gnoscopine
gnoscopines
gnoseological
gnoseologically
gnoseology
gnoses
gnosia
gnosiological
gnosiologically
gnosiology
gnosis
gnossienne
gnossiennes
gnostic
gnostical (current term)
gnostically
gnosticise
gnosticised
gnosticises
gnosticising
gnosticisms
gnostics
gnotobiology
gnotobiont
gnotobionts
gnotobiot
gnotobiota
gnotobiotas
gnotobiote

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 ..."

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