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<A NAME="christian">
<B>Christian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who believes in Christ and follows His teachings; person belonging to the religion of Christ. <BR> <I>Ex. Christians celebrate Christmas. Every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) a decent, respectable, or presentable person. <BR> <I>Ex. You must take your passage like a Christian (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal and Dialect.) a human being as opposed to an animal. <BR> <I>Ex. a fitter food for a horse than a Christian (Henry Fielding).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the principal character of John Bunyan's <I>Pilgrim's Progress.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S.) one of the Disciples of Christ; Campbellite. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of Christ, His teachings, or His followers. <BR> <I>Ex. the Christian faith, Christian worship.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>believing in Christ; following His example or teachings; belonging to the religion of Christ. <BR> <I>Ex. the Christian church, Christian countries.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of Christians or Christianity. <BR> <I>Ex. the Christian God. If thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>showing a gentle, humble, helpful spirit. <BR> <I>Ex. Christian kindness. That supply of light, of love, and of resolve, which enriches ... the Christian soul (Henry P. Liddon).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>decent; civilized; respectable. <BR> <I>Ex. Every man deserves a Christian burial. Had you been to fight with any Christian weapons (Scott).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>human; not animal. <BR><I>expr. <B>most Christian,</B> </I>a title of the kings of France. <BR> <I>Ex. Religious criticism hath made but little progress among the subjects of the most Christian king (John Brown).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="christianbrothers">
<B>Christian Brothers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a religious congregation of Roman Catholic laymen, the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded about 1680 and devoted to the education of the poor. </DL>
<A NAME="christianchurch">
<B>Christian Church,</B> <B>=Disciples of Christ.</B></DL>
<A NAME="christiandemocrat">
<B>Christian Democrat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of any one of several political parties, especially those in western Europe, that advocate a policy of Christian socialism. <BR> <I>Ex. The growth of Europe's Christian Democrats--multinational political parties with strong, if paradoxical, Christian and Socialist roots--remains a great postwar political phenomenon (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="christiandemocratic">
<B>Christian Democratic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Christian Democrats. </DL>
<A NAME="christianera">
<B>Christian Era,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the time since the date (now considered as having been set from four to eight years too late) assigned to the birth of Christ, in use in all predominantly Christian countries; A.D. is in the Christian Era; B.C. is before it. </DL>
<A NAME="christianiaturn">
<B>Christiania turn,</B> or <B>Christiania, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Skiing.) a skidding turn begun from a crouched position with the skis kept parallel, the body swinging in the desired direction during a spring just sufficient to free the skis from its weight: christie. </DL>
<B>Christianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Christian religious system; Christianity (obsolete except as a nonce word, when Christianity is classed with other -isms). </DL>
<A NAME="christianite">
<B>christianite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of the feldspar anorthite. </DL>
<A NAME="christianity">
<B>Christianity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the religion taught by Christ and His followers; Christian religion. <BR> <I>Ex. The glory of Christianity is the very gap between its teachings of perfection and the struggles of a hopelessly imperfect mankind to reach it (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Christian beliefs or faith; condition of being a Christian; Christian spirit or character. <BR> <I>Ex. His Christianity consisted of going to church on Sunday.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>all Christians; the Christian part of the world; Christendom. <BR> <I>Ex. Christianity recognizes the cross as its symbol.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="christianize">
<B>Christianize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make Christian; convert to Christianity. <BR> <I>Ex. Thousands of intelligent Africans, despite the odds against them, have Christianized themselves, educated themselves, civilized themselves (Atlantic).</I> noun <B>Christianization.</B> noun <B>Christianizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="christianlike">
<B>Christianlike, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> befitting or proper to a Christian; showing a Christian spirit. </DL>
<A NAME="christianly">
<B>Christianly, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> proper to or befitting a Christian. <DD><I>adv. </I> in a Christian manner; in a way becoming a Christian. </DL>
<A NAME="christianname">
<B>Christian name,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a first name; given name. <BR> <I>Ex. "John" is the Christian name of "John Smith."</I> </DL>
<A NAME="christianscience">
<B>Christian Science,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a religion and system of healing founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. It treats disease by mental and spiritual means, emphasizing the belief that a thorough spiritual understanding of God as the all-powerful source of all that is good and true can destroy sin, sickness, and the like without material aid. </DL>
<A NAME="christianscientist">
<B>Christian Scientist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a believer in Christian Science; a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. </DL>
<A NAME="christiansocialism">
<B>Christian socialism,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various socialistic theories or systems designed to secure practical adjustments for the benefit of all by the application of the principles of Christianity to the ordinary business of life. </DL>
<A NAME="christie">
<B>christie</B> or <B>Christie, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties,</B> verb, <B>-tied,</B> <B>-tying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>=Christiania turn.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make a Christiania turn or turns. Also, <B>christy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="christjesus">
<B>Christ Jesus,</B> <B>=Jesus.</B></DL>
<A NAME="christless">
<B>Christless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without Christ; lacking Christian spirit or faith; unchristian. noun <B>Christlessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="christlike">
<B>Christlike, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like Christ; like that of Christ; showing the spirit of Christ. <BR> <I>Ex. a Christlike patience (Thomas Ken).</I> noun <B>Christlikeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="christly">
<B>Christly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of Christ; Christlike. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with Jesus Christ. noun <B>Christliness.</B> </DL>
