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Campbellite
(gcide) | Campbellite \Camp"bell*ite\, n. [From Alexander Campbell, of
Virginia.] (Eccl.)
A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples
of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as
a nickname. See Christian, 3.
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Campbellites
(gcide) | Christian \Chris"tian\, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ?; cf. AS.
cristen. See Christ.]
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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.
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The disciples were called Christians first in
Antioch. --Acts xi. 26.
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2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents,
and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an
opposing system.
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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.
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Note: In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members
of the sects, kr[imac]s"chan.
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