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n. 1. an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska.
Syn. -- Aleutian Islands. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Said to be from the Russ. aleut a bold rock. ] Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Alsatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to the Christian religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an antichristian manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opposer of the theory of phlogiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Boeotia, Gr. boiwti`a, noted for its moist, thick atmosphere, and the dullness and stupidity of its inhabitants. ] Of or pertaining to Bœotia. -- n. A native of Bœotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Stupid; dull; obtuse. -- n. One who is dull and ignorant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to Humphrey Bogart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & n. See Byzantine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. christianus, Gr. &unr_;; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. [ 1913 Webster ]

The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christian Commission. See under Commission. --
Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. --
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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] --
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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. christianismus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. christianisme. ] 1. The Christian religion. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Christian world; Christendom. [ Obs. ] Johnson [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ In sense (a) named after Christian Frederic, of Denmark; in sense (b) after Christian VII., of Denmark. ] (Min.) (a) Same as Anorthite. [ R. ] (b) See Phillipsite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cristiente, OF. cristienté, F. chrétienté, fr. L. christianitas. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The body of Christian believers. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Christianized p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing. ] [ Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pagans began to Christianize. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming to a Christian. [ 1913 Webster ]

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Christianlike. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. & n. See Cretan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Croatia. -- n. A Croat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dalmatian dog (Zool.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dechristianized p. pr. & vb. n. Dechristianizing. ] To turn from, or divest of, Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One skilled in dietetics. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. Of or relating to Djibouti or its people or culture; as, Djiboutian landscape; Djiboutian merchants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Djibouti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. Aegyptius, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; (L. Aegyptus) Egypt: cf. F. égyptien. Cf. Gypsy. ] Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egyptian bean. (Bot.) (a) The beanlike fruit of an aquatic plant (Nelumbium speciosum), somewhat resembling the water lily. (b) See under Bean, 1. --
Egyptian cross. See Illust. (No. 6) of Cross. --
Egyptian thorn (Bot.), a medium-sized tree (Acacia vera). It is one of the chief sources of the best gum arabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gypsy. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; Epictetus. ] Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) The principles of the Erastains. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. adj. Pertainnig to or resembling or befitting Faust especially in insatiable striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values; as, a Faustian pact with the devil.. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

prop. a. of or pertaining to Robert Frost (definition 4). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fustāt, i. e., Cairo, where it was made. ] 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made of fustian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of fustian. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A gecko. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. genciane, F. gentiane, L. gentiana, fr. Gentius, an Illyrian king, said to have discovered its properties. ] (Bot.) Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Many species are found on the highest mountains of Europe, Asia, and America, and some are prized for their beauty, as the Alpine (Gentiana verna, Gentiana Bavarica, and Gentiana excisa), and the American fringed gentians (Gentiana crinita and Gentiana detonsa). Several are used as tonics, especially the bitter roots of Gentiana lutea, the officinal gentian of the pharmacopoeias. [ 1913 Webster ]

Horse gentian, fever root. --
Yellow gentian (Bot.), the officinal gentian (Gentiana lutea). See Bitterwort. [ 1913 Webster ]