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"GNOSTICS" is a plural of: gnostic. |
Date "GNOSTICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Gnostics The knowers, opposed to believers, various sects in the first ages of Christianity, who tried to accommodate Scripture to the speculations of Pythagoras, Plato, and other ancient philosophers. They taught that knowledge, rather than mere faith, is the true key of salvation. In the Gnostic creed Christ is esteemed merely as an eon, or divine attribute personified, like Mind, Truth, Logos, Church, etc., the whole of which eons made up this divine pleroma or fulness. Paul, in several of his epistles, speaks of this "Fulness (pleroma) of God." (Greek, Gnosticos.) (See Agnostics.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: GNOSTICS |
| English words defined with "GNOSTICS": Cerinthian ♦ Elcesaite ♦ gnosis ♦ Valentinian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GNOSTICS": Alexandrine Philosophy ♦ Barbeliots ♦ Nicolaitans ♦ Valentinians. (references) |
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| "GNOSTICS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "GNOSTICS" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (plural) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gnostics | 72 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "GNOSTICS": agnostics, diagnostics, prognostics. (additional references) | |
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"GNOSTICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gostick, Goticos, Nostics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: consist, cosigns, costing, gnostic, stingos, tocsins, tossing. | |
-2 letters: coigns, cosign, coting, gnosis, incogs, ingots, scions, sonics, stingo, stings, stoics, tigons, tocsin, tonics. | |
-3 letters: cions, cists, coign, coins, costs, gists, icons, incog, ingot, ontic, scion, scots, signs, sings, snits, snogs, snots, songs, sonic, sting, stoic, tigon, tings, tongs, tonic. | |
-4 letters: cigs, cion, cist, cogs, coin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agnostics, coastings, cosseting, scoutings, stockings. | |
+2 letters: consisting, gnosticism, nostalgics. | |
+3 letters: agnosticism, associating, clingstones, coassisting, congestions, constringes, cosmogonist, customising, diagnostics, gnosticisms, nasogastric, nightscopes, oncologists, organicists, ostracising, outclassing, outcrossing, postsyncing, prognostics, scroungiest. | |
+4 letters: agnosticisms, castigations, cohostessing, consignments, copingstones, cosmogonists, countersigns, crosscutting, dissociating, egocentrisms, geoscientist, logisticians, misogynistic, necrologists, outsourcings, overcastings, shortcomings, stocktakings, stringcourse, testcrossing, wainscotings. | |
+5 letters: blockbustings, bluestockings, chronologists, conchologists, consignations, cosignatories, crosscuttings, crosshatching, decongestions, gasifications, gastrocnemius, geoscientists, gynecologists, gynecomastias, intercrossing, locksmithings, misconstruing, oceanologists, scapegoatings, sociolinguist, sportscasting, stockbrokings, stockjobbings, stonecuttings, stringcourses, technologists, wainscottings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4E 4F 53 54 49 43 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. -. --- ... - .. -.-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001110 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G N O S T I C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004E 004F 0053 0054 0049 0043 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4148495354433753 |
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