'Marcionite' definitions:

Definition of 'Marcionite'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]