The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Christian \Chris"tian\, a.
1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian
people.
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3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian
court. --Blackstone.
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4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind;
kindly; gentle; beneficent.
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The graceful tact; the Christian art. --Tennyson.
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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.
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