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    Christian , a.
    1.  Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
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    2. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
      Blackstone.

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    3. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
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      The graceful tact; the Christian art.
      Tennyson.

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      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. 
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       -- 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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    Name , n. [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. namō, L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr. ὄμονα, Scr. nāman. √267. Cf. Anonymous, Ignominy, Misnomer, Nominal, Noun.]
    1. The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
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      Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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      What's in a name? That which we call a rose
      By any other name would smell as sweet.
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    2. A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.
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      His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
      Is. ix. 6.

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    3. Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction.
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      What men of name resort to him?
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      Far above . . . every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.
      Eph. i. 21.

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      I will get me a name and honor in the kingdom.
      1 Macc. iii. 14.

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      He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin.
      Deut. xxii. 19.

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      The king's army . . . had left no good name behind.
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    4. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
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      The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
      Motley.

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    5. A person, an individual. [Poetic]
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      They list with women each degenerate name.
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      Christian name. (a) The name a person receives at baptism, as distinguished from surname; baptismal name; in western countries, it is also called a first name. (b) A given name, whether received at baptism or not. -- Given name. See under Given. -- In name, in profession, or by title only; not in reality; as, a friend in name. -- In the name of. (a) In behalf of; by the authority of. “ I charge you in the duke's name to obey me.” Shak. (b) In the represented or assumed character of. “I'll to him again in name of Brook.” Shak. -- Name plate, a plate as of metal, glass, etc., having a name upon it, as a sign; a doorplate. -- Pen name, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom de plume. Bayard Taylor. -- Proper name (Gram.), a name applied to a particular person, place, or thing. -- To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations. -- To take a name in vain, to use a name lightly or profanely; to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths. Ex. xx. 7.
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      Syn. -- Appellation; title; designation; cognomen; denomination; epithet.  -- Name, Appellation, Title, Denomination. Name is generic, denoting that combination of sounds or letters by which a person or thing is known and distinguished. Appellation, although sometimes put for name simply, denotes, more properly, a descriptive term (called also agnomen or cognomen), used by way of marking some individual peculiarity or characteristic; as, Charles the Bold, Philip the Stammerer. A title is a term employed to point out one's rank, office, etc.; as, the Duke of Bedford, Paul the Apostle, etc. Denomination is to particular bodies what appellation is to individuals; thus, the church of Christ is divided into different denominations, as Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, etc.
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