What's the difference between gnomic and gnostic?

Gnomic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Gnomical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have different values and allies,” Rogozin’s caption gnomically declared.
  • (2) 'Positive points are difficult to find today,' he said in that gnomic way of his that falls between irony and mischief.
  • (3) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
  • (4) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
  • (5) "I'm sitting on the gnomic fence," said Jinny Blom, who has designed a sentimental garden of forget-me-nots and baby's tears plants for Prince Harry's Lesotho children's charity, Sentebale.
  • (6) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
  • (7) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
  • (8) All attempts to penetrate the veil of secrecy fail: the rare interviews he gives are pretty gnomic – a state of affairs compounded by his refusal to allow journalists to record their conversations .
  • (9) Rosa portrays himself melodramatically, and with a gnomic tablet saying that silence is the best policy.
  • (10) This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles.
  • (11) Grimacing mystics guffing out plumes of gnomic "wisdom" while using their genitals as a mortar and pestle.
  • (12) "You've seen Bergerac ," my mother replied, gnomically, closing the conversation down, to my infinite confusion.
  • (13) But Wu Lyf resisted all advances, preferring instead to issue, via their website , gnomic utterances and enigmatic mission statements, written in a barely comprehensible language that suggested Wu Lyf – which stands for World Unite!
  • (14) Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – " You are water.
  • (15) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
  • (16) Given the choice, they favour a gnomic utterance over plain speaking.
  • (17) For a band with such mainstream appeal, their lyrics are remarkably gnomic.
  • (18) Compared to her somewhat gnomic boss, she is a model of clarity.
  • (19) Mischievous and mysterious at all times, Jean-Luc Godard presented Cannes with his latest and possibly even last work, Film Socialism , playing in the Un Certain Regard category: it's a complex fragmented poem of a movie, flashing up on to the screen images, sequences, archive-reel material and, as ever with this film-maker, gnomic slogans and phrases, here in bold, sans-serif capitals, white on black.
  • (20) As they sent work-in-progress off to Fincher, who was on location in Europe, the director would respond with gnomic emails.

Gnostic


Definition:

  • (a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
  • (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the same time there is a low activity in post-central and temporal "afferent" (sensory-gnostic) cortical areas.
  • (2) These documents were then compared with the 'Seven sermons', and numerous affinities noted between it and the Gnostic texts.
  • (3) The MRT expresses the degree of gnostic disturbances by means of a point system.
  • (4) "As a secularist with Gnostic proclivities," he writes, "and above all as a literary aesthete, I preach Bardolatry as the most benign of all religions."
  • (5) The authors describe gnostic rings, an additional technique, that is useful for clinical sensibility testing, as well as for sensory reeducation.
  • (6) Decisive syndromal points of view are: a) there is an absence of significant audiological deficiencies; b) errors of the acoustic-discriminative type prevail in auditory-visual matching tasks; c) the gnostic deficit is modality specific; d) the same items are variably reproduced on repeated presentation; e) there is marked fluctuation of performance; f) there is exceptional irreversibility of the impairment; g) amusia is a more or less obligatory accompanying phenomenon; h) in cases of vascular origin there is always a history of repeated temporal lobe damage, this damage being predominantly in the form of bilateral lesions.
  • (7) Inflow of potassium ions into the alga Hydrodictyon reticulatum is reduced in the dark, the reduction being accompanied by a change in the selectivity pattern with respect to alkali metal ions, observed in competition experiments and evaluated by the gnostic analysis as described by Kovanic.
  • (8) It is not enough to assume that because Jung chose the pseudonym of Basilides, he was necessarily Jung's primary Gnostic influence.
  • (9) Thus it becomes evident that there is epistemologically a fundamental difference between the so-called gnostic and the agnostic standpoint, between the psychoanalytical and the phenomenological approach.
  • (10) Findings of this study suggest that the connection between the gnostic units of expression and the gnostic units of verbal labeling is not impaired significantly among the dementia patients.
  • (11) Clinical features deviating from the usual pattern included: no psychosis, no measurable dementia, no dwarfism, no microcephaly, no (marked) involuntary movements, but conspicuous generalised muscle atrophy and denervation, impairment of vital and gnostic sensation, thoracolumbar vertebral anomalies, and aplasia of os coccygis.
  • (12) The cells of the highest stage eventually become "gnostic cells", whose response shows the final result of the pattern-recognition of the network.
  • (13) The results have been compared with 101 patients without consideration of all gnostic defects.
  • (14) However, the most important are signs which definitely correspond to the specificity of the lateralization of the gnostical functions.
  • (15) The main outcome of the experiments described in the paper is an idea on the gnostic cortical microset.
  • (16) Bloom, the "Jewish Gnostic heretic" and dedicated follower of Emerson, observes that "sublime literature demands an emotional not an economic investment", and, for himself, declares he is ready to submit, with reservations, to being described as "a theorist of the American Sublime".
  • (17) While there is no way of knowing precisely what Jung was thinking when he wrote the 'Seven sermons', it is clear that he was well acquainted not only with the work of Basilides, but also with the work of other Gnostic thinkers.
  • (18) Religious metaphors are rife in these conversations about bread, cheese and coffee – these everyday items have been elevated to gnostic mysteries.
  • (19) As Luria has noted, the gnostic disturbances associated with damages of the right hemisphere are "the remarkable absence of perception of the patient of his own defects; .
  • (20) It is shown that preservation of connections of cortical gnostic zones with verbal structures of the left hemisphere is the obligatory condition for consciousness functioning.