Ag*nos"tic (&?;), a. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; knowing, &?; to know.] Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly (&?;), adv.
Ag*nos"tic, n. One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Ag*nos"ti*cism (&?;), n. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
||Ag"nus (&?;), n.; pl. E. Agnuses (&?;); L. Agni (&?;). [L., a lamb.] Agnus Dei.
||Ag"nus cas"tus (&?;). [Gr. &?; a willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with &?; holy, chaste.] (Bot.) A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon.
And wreaths of agnus castus others bore.
Dryden.
||Ag"nus De"i (&?;). [L., lamb of God.] (R. C. Ch.) (a) A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag. (b) A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope. (c) A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."
A*go" (&?;), a. & adv. [OE. ago, agon, p. p. of agon to go away, pass by, AS. gn to pass away; - (cf. Goth. us- , Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + gn to go. See Go.] Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
A*gog" (&?;), a. & adv. [Cf. F. gogue fun, perhaps of Celtic origin.] In eager desire; eager; astir.
All agog to dash through thick and thin.
Cowper.
A*go"ing (&?;), adv. [Pref. a- + p. pr. of go.] In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
||Ag"on (&?;), n.; pl. Agones (&?;). [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games.