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1. (n.) Marcionite
a member of a Gnostic sect of the 2nd and 3th centuries that rejected the Old Testament.
Etymology: (1530–40; < LL Marciōn-, s. of
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1. (noun) marcionite
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
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