MARCIONITE
\mˈɑːʃənˌa͡ɪt], \mˈɑːʃənˌaɪt], \m_ˈɑː_ʃ_ə_n_ˌaɪ_t]\
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A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
By Oddity Software
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A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
By Noah Webster.
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mar'shun-[=i]t, n. and adj. a follower of Marcion of Sinope (died 165 A.D.), who, partly under Gnostic influences, constructed an ethico-dualistic philosophy of religion, with rigorously ascetic practices. He claimed alone to have understood Paul aright, and accepted as authoritative his own version of Luke and ten of Paul's epistles.--ns. MAR'CIONIST; MAR'CIONITISM.
By Thomas Davidson
