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christianity
(encz) | Christianity,křesťanství n: |
Christianity
(gcide) | Christianity \Chris*tian"i*ty\, n. [OE. cristiente, OF.
cristient['e], F. chr['e]tient['e], fr. L. christianitas. ]
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1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and
precepts taught by Christ.
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2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to
the spirit of the Christian religion
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3. The body of Christian believers. [Obs.]
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To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons. --Chaucer.
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christianity
(wn) | Christianity
n 1: 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
[syn: Christianity, Christian religion]
2: the collective body of Christians throughout the world and
history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and
Australia); "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church
was the principal church of Christendom" [syn: Christendom,
Christianity] |
CHRISTIANITY
(bouvier) | CHRISTIANITY. The religion established by Jesus Christ.
2. Christianity has been judicially declared to be a part of the common
law of Pennsylvania; 11 Serg. & Rawle, 394; 5 Binn. R.555; of New York, 8
Johns. R. 291; of Connecticut, 2 Swift's System, 321; of Massachusetts,
Dane's Ab. vol. 7, c. 219, a. 2, 19. To write or speak contemptuously and
maliciously against it, is an indictable offence. Vide Cooper on the Law of
Libel, 59 and 114, et seq.; and generally, 1 Russ. on Cr. 217; 1 Hawk, c. 5;
1 Vent. 293; 3 Keb. 607; 1 Barn. & Cress. 26. S. C. 8 Eng. Com. Law R. 14;
Barnard. 162; Fitzgib. 66; Roscoe, Cr. Ev. 524; 2 Str. 834; 3 Barn. & Ald.
161; S. C. 5 Eng. Com. Law R. 249 Jeff. Rep. Appx. See 1 Cro. Jac. 421 Vent.
293; 3 Keb. 607; Cooke on Def. 74; 2 How. S. C. 11 ep. 127, 197 to 201.
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Antichristianity
(gcide) | Antichristianism \An`ti*chris"tian*ism\, Antichristianity
\An`ti*chris*tian"i*ty\, n.
Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
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Christianity
(gcide) | Christianity \Chris*tian"i*ty\, n. [OE. cristiente, OF.
cristient['e], F. chr['e]tient['e], fr. L. christianitas. ]
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1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and
precepts taught by Christ.
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2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to
the spirit of the Christian religion
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3. The body of Christian believers. [Obs.]
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To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons. --Chaucer.
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Muscular Christianity
(gcide) | Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular Christianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability; contractility.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects.
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Neo-Christianity
(gcide) | Neo-Christianity \Ne`o-Chris*tian"i*ty\ (? or ?), n. [Neo- +
Christianity.]
Rationalism.
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CHRISTIANITY
(bouvier) | CHRISTIANITY. The religion established by Jesus Christ.
2. Christianity has been judicially declared to be a part of the common
law of Pennsylvania; 11 Serg. & Rawle, 394; 5 Binn. R.555; of New York, 8
Johns. R. 291; of Connecticut, 2 Swift's System, 321; of Massachusetts,
Dane's Ab. vol. 7, c. 219, a. 2, 19. To write or speak contemptuously and
maliciously against it, is an indictable offence. Vide Cooper on the Law of
Libel, 59 and 114, et seq.; and generally, 1 Russ. on Cr. 217; 1 Hawk, c. 5;
1 Vent. 293; 3 Keb. 607; 1 Barn. & Cress. 26. S. C. 8 Eng. Com. Law R. 14;
Barnard. 162; Fitzgib. 66; Roscoe, Cr. Ev. 524; 2 Str. 834; 3 Barn. & Ald.
161; S. C. 5 Eng. Com. Law R. 249 Jeff. Rep. Appx. See 1 Cro. Jac. 421 Vent.
293; 3 Keb. 607; Cooke on Def. 74; 2 How. S. C. 11 ep. 127, 197 to 201.
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