/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · Agnoites (3 syl.). Ag-no-ites, or Ag-no-i-tæ
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(1) Certain heretics in the fourth century who said “God did not know everything.”
(2) Another sect, in the sixth century, who maintained that Christ “did not know the time of the day of judgment.” (Greek, α not; γιγνωσκω, to know.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.