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Chris"tian, a. -- Christian
Endeavor, Young People's Society of. In various
Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each
individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such
organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society
was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a
Congregational minister.
Chris"tian (?), a.
1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as,
Christian people.
3. Pertaining to the church;
ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
Blackstone.
4. Characteristic of Christian people;
civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
The graceful tact; the Christian art.
Tennyson.
Christian Commission. See under
Commission. -- Christian court.
Same as Ecclesiastical court. --
Christian era, the present era, commencing
with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error
of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate
the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late,
so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian
name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from
the family name, or surname.
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