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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Marcionite \Mar"cion*ite\ (m[aum]r"sh[u^]n*[imac]t), n. (Eccl. Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster]