English dictionary: words starting with gno

plural noun

(in italian cooking) small dumplings made from potato, semolina, or flour, usually served with a sauce.

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Next is a page with 17 pasta selections with spaghetti, fettuccine, penne, gnocchi, tortelli, lasag…

noun

Small round balls made from potato or wheat flour mixed with water, that you eat in soup or with sauce

noun

A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

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Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.

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A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

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Elves and men and gnomes and goblins alike looked about in fear and confusion.

adjective

Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms.

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That most gnomic form, the aphorism

adjective

Relating to knowledge, especially esoteric mystical knowledge.

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For some pavements such a religious symbolism has been suggested: examples at brading and littlecot…

noun

An adherent of gnosticism.

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The distortions of the marcionites, gnostics, and montanists were carefully examined under the crit…

noun

A prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century christian church, partly of pre-christian origin. gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

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And john's gospel is certainly far removed from the full-blown gnosticism which the later church fa…

adjective

Relating to or denoting an environment for rearing or culturing organisms in which all the microorganisms are either known or excluded.

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The march 30th issue of the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, with a warholian zebra…