Word Meanings - CHRISTIANLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming to a Christian. A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.

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• CHRISTIAN
  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. The disciples were called Christians first
• CHRISTIANLY
  Christianlike. Longfellow.
• CHRISTIAN ERA
  The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus , who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754,
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• CHRISTIANITE
  Same as Anorthite. See Phillipsite.
• CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
  Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others
• CHRISTIANIZATION
  The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
• VIRTUOUS
  1. Possessing or exhibiting virtue. Specifically: -- Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous. Chapman. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious;
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• CHRISTIANLIKE
  Becoming to a Christian. A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• CHRISTIANITY
  1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ. 2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion 3. The body of Christian believers. To Walys fled the
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
  A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system
• CHRISTIAN SENECA
  Joseph Hall , Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• CHRISTIANNESS
  Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. Hammond.
• CONCLUSION
  The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. Addison. 5. Drawing
• CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST
  A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.
• CHRISTIANIZE
  Gr. 1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans. 2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• UNCHRISTIAN
  1. Not Christian; not converted to the Christian faith; infidel. 2. Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian; as, unchristian conduct.
• NEO-CHRISTIANITY
  Rationalism.
• UNCHRISTIANLY
  Unchristian. Milton.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• ANTICHRISTIAN
  Opposed to the Christian religion.
• DECHRISTIANIZE
  To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.