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A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

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. Brande & C.…

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

he observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

Prognostication by the letters of a name.

A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign. [Obs.]

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton.

cillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

Augury; prognostication. [Obs.] The soothe of birds by beating of their wings. Spenser.

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.

A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

eries; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.