Christian
- a. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
- n. 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.
- n. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
- n. 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.
- n. One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
- a. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
- a. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.