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gnostick

gnostick is the obsolete form of gnostic.

Meaning of gnostic

Adjective

gnostic

  1. (archaic, slang) knowing; wise; shrewd
    • I said you were a d—d gnostic fellow.1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co....

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Forms of gnostick

Adjective
comparativemore gnostick
superlativemost gnostick
Noun
pluralgnosticks

Words that rhyme with gnostick

Questions about gnostick

What is gnostick the obsolete form of?
Gnostick is the obsolete form of gnostic.

Words near gnostick in the dictionary

  1. gnosticized
  2. gnosticizer
  3. gnosticizers
  4. gnosticizes
  5. gnosticizing
  6. gnostick
  7. gnosticks
  8. gnostics
  9. gnostology
  10. gnotobiological
  11. gnotobiologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gnostick (page history and authors); gnostic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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