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Gnostics; so called from Carpoʹcartēs, who flourished in the middle of the second century. They maintained that the world was made by angels,—that only the soul of Christ ascended into heaven,—and that the body will have no resurrection.
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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.