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Christian 音標拼音: [kr'ɪstʃən] [kr'ɪstʃɪn] n. 基督徒,文明人
a. 基督的,基督教的 基督徒,文明人基督的,基督教的 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 denominationChristian \ Chris" tian\, a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. [ 1913 Webster] The graceful tact; the Christian art. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Christian \ Chris" tian\, n. [ L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS. cristen. See { Christ}.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. -- Acts xi. 26. [ 1913 Webster] 2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, kr[ imac] s" chan. [ 1913 Webster] 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 |
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