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adjective

Christian adj.

1.

Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

2.

Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.

3.

Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. "The graceful tact; the Christian art."

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.

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.

noun

Christian Era n. 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.

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"Christian era" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1508. The Christian era was computed in Florence at that time from the Incarnation (Lady day, March 25th). Hence this should be ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... self-preservation should prevent such an addition. That might be as injudicious as it would have been for some bright young man in ancient Egypt, five thousand years before the Christian era, to express a doubt concerning the divinity of the sacred bull. The correctness of his conjecture would not have saved him from a horrible death at the hands of the faithful." And he began to lead ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... flourished for three centuries prior to the Christian era, produced men of eminence whose discoveries and investigations, when arranged and classified, enabled astronomy to be regarded as a true theoretical science. The positions of the fixed stars and the paths of the planets were determined with greater accuracy, and irregularities ...

— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... abundant here as to have formed an important part of the materials supplied to the furnaces of the Forest, afford proof that the iron-mines were in existence as early as the commencement of the Christian era; so that the openings we now see are the results of many centuries of mining operations, with which their extent, number, and size ...

— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls

... three centuries of the Christian era very few of the church fathers had any knowledge of Hebrew. The churches received the Scriptures of the Old Testament through the medium of the Alexandrine Greek version, which contained the apocryphal ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

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