christian : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a Christian who has experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus
  

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• noun the sacred writings of the Christian religions
  Bible; Word; Word of God; Holy Writ; Holy Scripture; Book; Good Book; Scripture.
  
  • he went to carry the Word to the heathen

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• noun one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
  church.
  
• noun a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion
  Disciples of Christ.
  

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• . See under Commission.

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• . Same as Ecclesiastical court.

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• noun French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the New Look (1905-1957)
  Dior.
  

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• noun the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth
  Common era.
  

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• 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.

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• noun German dramatist (1813-1863)
  Friedrich Hebbel; Hebbel.
  

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• noun German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
  Schonbein; Christian Friedrich Schonbein.
  

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• noun a religious holiday for Christians
  

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• noun Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)
  Christiaan Huygens; Huygens.
  

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• noun Austrian physicist famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect (1803-1853)
  Doppler.
  

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• noun the Christian worship services
  

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• noun the first name given to Christians at birth or christening
  baptismal name.
  

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• the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

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• noun a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior
  Christianity.
  

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• noun German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
  Schonbein; Christian Friedrich Schonbein.
  

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• noun Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
  Church of Christ Scientist.
  
• noun religious system based on teachings of Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual healing
  

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• noun a member of the Protestant church founded in the United States by Mary Baker Eddy
  

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• noun the teachings of Christian churches
  

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• noun the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons
  church year.
  

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• noun merger of the Congregational Church and the Christian Church
  

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• noun French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989)
  Georges Simenon; Simenon.
  

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• noun inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus
  Hand-Schuller-Christian disease.
  

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• noun a Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875)
  Andersen.
  

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• noun Danish physicist (1777-1851)
  Oersted.
  

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• noun South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
  Smuts.
  

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• noun Finnish composer (1865-1957)
  Jean Sibelius; Sibelius.
  

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• adjective being historically related to both Judaism and Christianity
  
  • the Judeo-Christian tradition

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• noun a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion
  priest.
  

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• adjective of or relating to or being the time before the beginning of the Christian era
  

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• noun Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832)
  Rask.
  

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• noun German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
  Diesel; Rudolf Diesel.
  

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• noun inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus
  Hand-Schuller-Christian disease.
  

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• noun a member of the Uniat Church
  Uniate; Uniat.
  

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