| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings. |
| Christian Seneca |
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Joseph Hall (1574
1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist. |
| Christian Socialism |
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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. |
