| Chrematistics |
n. |
The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy. |
| Chreotechnics |
n. |
The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. |
| Chrestomathic |
a. |
Teaching what is useful. |
| Chrestomathy |
n. |
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. |
| Chrism |
n. |
Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. |
| Chrism |
n. |
The same as Chrisom. |
| Chrismal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to or used in chrism. |
| Chrismation |
n. |
The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. |
| Chrismatory |
n. |
A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept. |
| Chrisom |
n. |
A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. |
| Chrisom |
n. |
A child which died within a month after its baptism;
so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. |
| Christ |
n. |
The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah. |
| Christ's-thorn |
n. |
One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns. |
| Christcross |
n. |
The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects,
sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. |
| Christcross |
n. |
The beginning and the ending. |
| Christcross-row |
|
The alphabet;
formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. |
| Christen |
v. t. |
To baptize and give a Christian name to. |
| Christen |
v. t. |
To give a name; to denominate. |
| Christen |
v. t. |
To Christianize. |
| Christen |
v. t. |
To use for the first time. |
| Christendom |
n. |
The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. |
| Christendom |
n. |
The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. |
| Christendom |
n. |
That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. |
| Christendom |
n. |
The whole body of Christians. |
| Christened |
imp. & p. p. |
of Christen |
| Christening |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Christen |
| Christian |
n. |
One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. |
| Christian |
n. |
One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. |
| Christian |
n. |
One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. |
| Christian |
n. |
One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. |
| Christian |
a. |
Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. |
| Christian |
a. |
Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. |
| Christian |
a. |
Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. |
| Christian Era |
|
The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late. |
| Christian Science |
|
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents. |
| Christian Scientist |
|
A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings. |
| Christian Seneca |
|
Joseph Hall (1574
1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist. |
| Christian Socialism |
|
Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. |
| Christianism |
n. |
The Christian religion. |
| Christianism |
n. |
The Christian world; Christendom. |
| Christianite |
n. |
Same as Anorthite. |
| Christianite |
n. |
See Phillipsite. |
| Christianity |
n. |
The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ. |
| Christianity |
n. |
Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion |
| Christianity |
n. |
The body of Christian believers. |
| Christianization |
n. |
The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity. |
| Christianize |
v. t. |
To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans. |
| Christianize |
v. t. |
To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. |
| Christianize |
v. i. |
To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. |
| Christianized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Christianize |
| Christianizing |
p. pr. vb. n. |
of Christianize |
| Christianlike |
a. |
Becoming to a Christian. |
| Christianly |
adv. |
In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion. |
| Christianly |
a. |
Christianlike. |
| Christianness |
n. |
Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. |
| Christless |
a. |
Without faith in Christ; unchristian. |
| Christlike |
a. |
Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. |
| Christly |
a. |
Christlike. |
| Christmas |
n. |
An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. |
| Christmastide |
n. |
The season of Christmas. |
| Christocentric |
a. |
Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. |
| Christology |
n. |
A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ. |
| Christom |
n. |
See Chrisom. |
| Christophany |
n. |
An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion. |
| Chromascope |
n. |
An instrument for showing the optical effects of color. |
| Chromate |
n. |
A salt of chromic acid. |
| Chromatic |
a. |
Relating to color, or to colors. |
| Chromatic |
a. |
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale. |
| Chromatical |
a. |
Chromatic. |
| Chromatically |
adv. |
In a chromatic manner. |
| Chromatics |
n. |
The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors. |
| Chromatin |
n. |
Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes. |
| Chromatin |
n. |
The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes of cells, now supposed to be the physical basis of inheritance, and generally regarded as the same substance as the hypothetical idioplasm or germ plasm. |
| Chromatism |
n. |
The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. |
| Chromatism |
n. |
An abnormal coloring of plants. |
| Chromatogenous |
a. |
Producing color. |
| Chromatography |
n. |
A treatise on colors |
| Chromatology |
n. |
A treatise on colors. |
| Chromatophore |
n. |
A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods. |
| Chromatophore |
n. |
One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them. |
| Chromatoscope |
n. |
A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point;
used in studying the scintillation of the stars. |
| Chromatosphere |
n. |
A chromosphere. |
| Chromatrope |
n. |
An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored. |
| Chromatrope |
n. |
A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects. |
| Chromatype |
n. |
A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium. |
| Chromatype |
n. |
The process by which such picture is made. |
| Chrome |
n. |
Same as Chromium. |
| Chrome |
n. |
To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing. |
| Chrome steel |
|
Same as Chromium steel, under Steel. |
| Chromed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Chrome |
| Chromic |
a. |
Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium;
said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence. |
| Chromid |
n. |
One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile. |
| Chromidrosis |
n. |
Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration. |
| Chroming |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Chrome |
| Chromism |
n. |
Same as Chromatism. |
| Chromite |
n. |
A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron;
called also chromic iron. |
| Chromite |
n. |
A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. |
| Chromium |
n. |
A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome. |
| Chromo |
n. |
A chromolithograph. |
| Chromoblast |
n. |
An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell. |
