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; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

Cheerfulness. [Obs.] There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.

on of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc. When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish t…

The manner characteristic of a child. [Obs.] "Varying childness." Shak.

The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.

Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

ite cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

rticular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

e chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

s widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

A building set apart for Christian worship.

or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.

Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.] I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. Shak.