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Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.

Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.

Christlike. H. Bushnell.

urch festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young…

The season of Christmas.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

See Chrisom. [Obs.] Shak.

An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.

A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.

Opposed to the Christian religion.

Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

In an antichristian manner.

To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

To christen wrongly.

Rationalism.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Half Christianized.

Anointed by God.