marcionite

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A follower of Marcion of Sinope, a Gnostic religious teacher of the second century, and the founder at Rome of the Marcionite sect, which lasted until the seventh century or later. Marcion taught that there were three primal forces: the good God, first revealed by Jesus Christ; the evil matter, ruled by the devil; and the Demiurge, the finite and imperfect God of the Jews. He rejected the Old Testament, denied the incarnation and resurrection, and admitted only a gospel akin to or altered from that of St. Luke and ten of St. Paul's epistles as inspired and authoritative; he repeated baptism thrice, excluded wine from the encharist, inculcated an extreme asceticism, and allowed women to minister. See Cerdonian.
2. Pertaining to or characterized by the principles of Marcion: as, the Marcionite Church.

Wiktionary

1. n. A follower of marcionism.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to marcionism.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.