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rson and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him [God]. Heb. xi. 6. The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised towa…

Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak.

le; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.] Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.

on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

d standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

an officer in a merchant vessel next in rank to the captain. -- First name, same as Christian name. See under Name, n. -- First officer (Naut.), in the merchant service, same as First mate (above). -- First sergeant (Mil.), the ranking non-commissioned officer in a company; the orderly sergeant. Farrow. -- First w…

nson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.

ssly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this [charity] a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people. Hooker.

To fall out; to happen. It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles.

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

ich serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. Byron.

long season, namely, seven generations. Baruch vi. 3. All generations and ages of the Christian church. Hooker.

One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

Stated; fixed; as, in a given time. Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

ts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.

One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are deriv…