christian

christian (plural christians)

1. Uncommon spelling of Christian.
   • 1945, Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy, page x:

     The most isolated christian […] does not come to God like the pagan mystic, as the alone to the Alone.

   • 1967, Francis Xavier Murphy, Politics and the Early Christian‎, page 65:

     Hence the faithful christians will readily obey Christ, who is the ruler of justice in the community.

   • 1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 135:

     The first model offered by Campi, appropriately enough given the intense interest displayed by ecclesiastical eruditi of the period in the sufferings of the early christians, was that of the third-century martyr and preeminent patron of Piacenza: S. Antonino.

christian (comparative more christian, superlative most christian)

1. Uncommon spelling of Christian.
   • 1945, Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy, page ix:

     Of all christian ‘ritual patterns’ that of the eucharist is by common consent central and most important.

   • 1985, Helen Ralston, “Models of ‘Church’: A Cross-cultural Perspective”, in Journal of Comparative Sociology and Religion, number 12, page 22:

     The emergence of basic christian communities as a new radical model of church is closely linked with Latin American Liberation Theology.

   • 1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 21:

     For them liturgy as religion in action with its central role in defining local christian communities, has proved a useful tool for enriching understanding of religious culture in pre-­industrial society.

christian

1. Alternative form of Cristien

christian m (oblique and nominative feminine singular christiane)

1. Alternative form of chrestien