n. [ L. christianus, Gr. &unr_;; 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 ]

☞ In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

. 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. christianismus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. christianisme. ] 1. The Christian religion. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Christian world; Christendom. [ Obs. ] Johnson [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ In sense (a) named after Christian Frederic, of Denmark; in sense (b) after Christian VII., of Denmark. ] (Min.) (a) Same as Anorthite. [ R. ] (b) See Phillipsite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cristiente, OF. cristienté, F. chrétienté, fr. L. christianitas. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The body of Christian believers. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Christianized p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing. ] [ Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pagans began to Christianize. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming to a Christian. [ 1913 Webster ]

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]