1. A surname. [R.] Minsheu.
2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.
AGNOSTIC
Ag*nos"tic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or
involving agnosticism.
— Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.
AGNOSTIC
Ag*nos"tic, n.
Defn: One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
AGNOSTICISM
Ag*nos"ti*cism, n.
Defn: That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)
Defn: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); — opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
AGNUS
Ag"nus, n.; pl. E. Agnuses; L. Agni. Etym: [L., a lamb.]