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Carpocraʹtians

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Gnostics; so called from Carpoʹcartēs, who flourished in the middle of the second century. They maintained that the world was made by angels,—that only the soul of Christ ascended into heaven,—and that the body will have no resurrection.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Carnival
Carotid Artery
Carouse
Carpathian Wizard
Carpe Diem
Carpenter
Carpet
Carpet-bag Adventurer (A)
Carpet-bag Government
Carpet Knight
Carpocratians
Carriage Company
Carriages
Carronades
Carry Arms!
Carry Coals
Carry Everything before One (To)
Carry Fire in one Hand and Water in the other (To)
Carry One’s Point (To)
Carry Out (To)
Carry out one’s Bat (To)