marcionite

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marcionite - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Marcionite \Mar"cion*ite\ (m[aum]r"sh[u^]n*[imac]t), n. (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.
     [1913 Webster]