(n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Revascularization of fingers injured by a ring avulsion, and restoration of tactile gnosis with esthetic coverage make salvage of the valued ulnar fingers feasible.
(2) A fractured shoulder last autumn left Khan unable to complete his previous work, Gnosis , in time for its billed premiere.
(3) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
(4) Conclusion is made about the presence of non-specific changes of visual gnosis in patients with schizophrenia and about involvement of the associative frontal structures in pathologic process.
(5) By the aid of photooptical methods the authors studied eye movements in 6 patients with disorders of visual gnosis due to focal lesions in the occipitallbrain lobes.
(6) It also shows tactile gnosis, necessary for precision sensory grips.
(7) This past Saturday, a group calling itself Gnosis broke into Gawker 's website, obtaining and releasing among other things a database of 1.3 million of the site's users and their email addresses.
(8) Starting with this baseline sensorial organization, there develops in the young child a increasingly complex growth gradient of lingual gnosis and praxis (general oral), starting with the spoon-feeding praxis at about 6 months of age.
(9) A neuropsychological investigation of the main cognitive functions (language, gnosis, praxis, calculation, memory) enables us to specify the characteristics of dementia shown by these patients.
(10) Various modalities of six neuropsychological functions (graphia, calculia, finger gnosis, right-left orientation, praxia and constructive praxia) referred to as parietal or nonverbal have been investigated in the light of speech disorders.
(11) It was found that ring-shaped coils have longer axial effective fields than other coil geometries, probably allowing dia gnosis of more deeply lying processes.
(12) Proceeding from the neuropsychological examination of a patient with an exceptionally selective impairment of auditory gnosis of vascular origin, we make an attempt to analyze structurally the syndrome of auditory agnosia, a study of which has been neglected in comparison with analyses of visual agnosia.
(13) Though the Gnosis correspondent denied any formal link with 4Chan, it is clear that Gawker's sustained and critical coverage of the image board was an important motive for the cyber attack.
(14) -- Tests for tactile gnosis were performed by means of "blindfold" tests.
(15) In contrast to Gnosis's "just for the lulz" attack on Gawker, the Anonymous attacks raise an interesting question for defenders of free speech: do we support the attacks as a form of speech act, or do we support the targets' original right to spread their messages unhindered?
(16) and a relative preservation of specific functions (speech, praxis, gnosis).
(17) This review one to eleven years later was mainly to determine if reorientation of the cortical representation of stimuli had developed and if tactile gnosis had persisted.
(18) Gnosis are unrelated to the thousand-strong group, known as Anonymous, which last week crippled the websites of a number of companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks following the release of confidential US diplomatic documents.
(19) A group calling itself Gnosis claimed responsibility for the attack, apparently in response to a series of disparaging Gawker blogposts about the internet messageboard 4Chan.
(20) The pair devised the name Hipgnosis, the partnership that they had started in 1967, by combining "hip" with the Greek word "gnosis", meaning "learning".
Transcendent
Definition:
(a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
(a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, it is only by moving to this level that we transcend the paradox of man knowing and explaining himself.
(2) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
(3) Common environmental questions encourage people to come together, transcending regional, political or ethical differences.
(4) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
(5) QPR lost Nedum Onuoha and Sandro to injuries – the latter had forced Mignolet into a reflex save early in the second half – but Sterling came to transcend the afternoon.
(6) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
(7) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(8) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(9) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(10) The corps has in many ways enjoyed a strength in inclusivity; a brotherhood that transcends immediate political loyalties.
(11) Keating made the comments on ABC’s 7.30, a program also featuring his successor John Howard , who said that, despite his concerns about Trump, the strength of the US-Australia alliance and shared values meant it transcended individual leaders.
(12) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(13) Some considerations are made on the importance of clinical, information and its transcendence in medical research, as well as on the ethical value of a qualitatively correct data treatment.
(14) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
(15) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(16) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(17) But the students have persisted, which suggests, again, that their campaign transcends a battle over Rhodes’s legacy.
(18) The Lord of the Rings transcended the thing of simply being films.
(19) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(20) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.