christian

5 definitions found

christian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Christian \Chris"tian\, a.
     1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian
        people.
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     3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian
        court. --Blackstone.
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     4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind;
        kindly; gentle; beneficent.
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              The graceful tact; the Christian art. --Tennyson.
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     Christian Commission. See under Commission.
  
     Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court.
  
     Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of. In various
        Protestant churches, a society of young people organized
        in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the
        whole body of such organizations, which are united in a
        corporation called the United Society of Christian
        Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was
        founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E.
        Clark, a Congregational minister. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth
        of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk
        (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate
        the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years
        too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894.
  
     Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from
        the family name, or surname.
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  Christian \Chris"tian\, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS.
     cristen. See Christ.]
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     1. 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.
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              The disciples were called Christians first in
              Antioch.                              --Acts xi. 26.
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     2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents,
        and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an
        opposing system.
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     3. (Eccl.)
        (a) 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.
        (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of
            open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only
            authoritative rule of faith and practice.
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     Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members
           of the sects, kr[imac]s"chan.
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christian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Christian
      adj 1: relating to or characteristic of Christianity; "Christian
             rites"
      2: following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or
         spirit of Jesus Christ [ant: unchristian]
      n 1: a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who
           is a member of a Christian denomination

christian - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Christian
  the name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to
  the followers of Jesus. It was first used at Antioch. The names
  by which the disciples were known among themselves were
  "brethren," "the faithful," "elect," "saints," "believers." But
  as distinguishing them from the multitude without, the name
  "Christian" came into use, and was universally accepted. This
  name occurs but three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26;
  26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16).

christian - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  166 Moby Thesaurus words for "Christian":
     Christianlike, Christianly, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing man,
     Nazarene, Nazarite, accepted, accepter, adoring, affectionate,
     approved, authentic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, believer,
     believing, benign, benignant, blameless, brotherly, burgher,
     canonical, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, civilized,
     clean, communicant, compassionate, conventional, convert, correct,
     creditable, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary,
     daily communicant, decent, devoted, devotee, devotionalist, devout,
     disciple, done, dutiful, erect, estimable, ethical, evangelical,
     exemplary citizen, fair, faithful, fanatic, firm, follower,
     fraternal, full of integrity, good, good Christian, good citizen,
     good neighbor, gracious, high-minded, high-principled,
     highly respectable, honest, honorable, human, humane, immaculate,
     inviolate, irreproachable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly,
     kindly-disposed, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, literal,
     loving, manly, moral, neophyte, nice, noble, of the faith,
     orthodox, orthodoxical, pietist, pietistic, pillar of society,
     pious, prayerful, principled, proper, proselyte, pure, received,
     receiver, religionist, religious, reputable, respectable,
     respectable citizen, reverent, reverential, right, right-minded,
     righteous, saint, scriptural, seemly, softhearted, solemn, sound,
     spotless, stainless, standard, sterling, sympathetic, sympathizing,
     tender, tenderhearted, textual, theist, theistic, traditional,
     traditionalistic, true, true Christian, true-blue, true-dealing,
     true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited,
     truehearted, truster, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted,
     undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
     untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerational,
     venerative, virtuous, votary, warm, warmhearted, worshipful,
     worthy, yeomanly, zealot