pistic

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The most robust faith, in so far as it is distinguished from all other knowledge that is not pistic or of faith--faithful, as we might say--is based on uncertainty.

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  1. An epithet of nard: as, pistic nard. An alabaster box of nard pistic was sent as a present from Cambyses to the king of Ethiopia. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 245.
  2. Pertaining to or of the nature of faith.

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  1. from Greek πιστικός, in the N. T., qualifying νάρδος, nard; taken to mean ‘liquid,’ from πιστός, liquid (from πἰνειν, drink). By some identified with πιστικός, faithful, genuine, from πιστός, faithful, from πείθειν, πιθεῑν, persuade, πείθεσθαι, πιθἑσθαι, believe.
  2. Greek πιστικός, faithful, genuine, from πιστις, faith, trust.
 

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