pangnostic

English

Etymology

From pan- + gnosis.

Noun

pangnostic (plural pangnostics)

1. Someone who has total knowledge.
   • 1908, Marcus Hitch, “Dietzgenism”, in International Socialist Review, volume 8:

     If Spencer and his followers are correctly called agnostics, then we should call Dietzgen a pangnostic. He knows it all.

   • 1887, William Preston Johnston, “Education in Louisiana”, in Proceedings of the National Education Association:

     I have labelled my grain of sand "Education in Louisiana," lest some among you may mistake me for a Pangnostic, come to teach you some new truth, or the All-Truth which suffices.

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