Chris·tian /ˈkrɪsʧən, ˈkrɪʃ-/
 基督徒,文明人(a.)基督的,基督教的


 Chris·tian n.
 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.
    The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.   --Acts xi. 26.
 2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
 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.
 Note: ☞ In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects,


 Chris·tian a.
 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
 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 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.
 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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 Christian
      adj 1: relating to or characteristic of Christianity; "Christian
             rites"
      2: following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or
         spirit of Jesus Christ [ant: unchristian]
      n : a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who
          is a member of a Christian denomination


 Christian
    the name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to
    the followers of Jesus. It was first used at Antioch. The names
    by which the disciples were known among themselves were
    "brethren," "the faithful," "elect," "saints," "believers." But
    as distinguishing them from the multitude without, the name
    "Christian" came into use, and was universally accepted. This
    name occurs but three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26;
    26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16).