Ros`i*cru"cian (?), a.
Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
Ros`i*cru"cian (?), n.
[The name is
probably due to a German theologian, Johann Valentin Andreä, who in anonymous pamphlets called himself a knight of the
Rose Cross (G. Rosenkreuz), using a seal with a St.
Andrew's cross and four roses.)]
One who, in the 17th century and the early
part of the
18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of
nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
&fist; The Rosicrucians also called brothers of the Rosy Cross, Rosy-cross Knights, Rosy-cross philosophers, etc. Among other pretensions, they claimed to be able to transmute metals, to prolong life, to know what
is passing in distant places, and to discover the most hidden things by the application of the Cabala and science of numbers.
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