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Webster 1913 Edition
Marcionite
Mar′cion-ite
(mär′shŭn-īt)
, Noun.
(Eccl. Hist)
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.