Ro|si|cru|cian

Ro|si|cru|cian
Ro|si|cru|cian «ROH zuh KOO shuhn», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of a secret society prominent in the 1600's and 1700's which claimed to have a special and secret knowledge of nature and religion.
2. a member of any one of various similar societies founded later.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Rosicrucians.
[< a Latinized form (< Latin rosa rose1 + crux, crucis cross) of Rosenkreuz, the supposed founder in 1484 of the order + -ian]

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