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CHRIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any expected deliverer
Synonyms:
christ; messiah
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("christ" is a kind of...):
deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
Synonyms:
Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))
Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)
prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)
Instance hyponyms:
El Nino (the Christ child)
Derivation:
christian (following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ)
Christian (relating to or characteristic of Christianity)
christly (resembling or showing the spirit of Christ)
Context examples:
Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
For dear Christ's sake, my fair lord, he cried in a crackling voice, I have at my belt a bag with a hundred rose nobles, and I will give it to you freely if you will but pass your sword through this man's body.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
