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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rosicrucian  \Ros`i*cru"cian\,  n.  [The  name  is  probably  due  to  a 
  German  theologian,  Johann  Valentin  Andre["a],  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. 
 
  Note:  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rosicrucian  \Ros`i*cru"cian\,  a. 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  Rosicrucians,  or  their  arts. 

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