Christianとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪʃtʃən/, /ˈkɹɪstjən/, /ˈkɹɪstʃən/
• ハイフネーション: Chris‧tian

名詞

Christian (複数形 Christians)

1. A believer in Christianity.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, The Most Excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene i:

     Shyl.... If a Iewe wrong a Christian, what is his humillity, reuenge? If a Christian wrong a Iewe, what should his sufferance be by Christian example, why reuenge? The villanie you teach me I will execute, and it shall goe hard but I will better the instruction.

   • 1848, James Ford translating St. Augustine in The Gospel of St. Matthew, Illustrated from Ancient and Modern Authors, p. 46:

     The whole life of a good Christian is nothing else but a state of holy desire (sanctum desiderium).

   • 1925, E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Indian Road, p. 118:

     "Mahatma Gandhi, I am very anxious to see Christianity naturalized in India, so that it shall be no longer a foreign thing identified with foreign people and a foreign government, but a part of the national life of India... What would you suggest that we do to make that possible?" He very gravely and thoughtfully replied: "I would suggest, first, that all of you Christians, missionaries and all, must begin to live more like Jesus Christ."

   • 2008, Christopher Catherwood, Making War in the Name of God, p. 188:

     ...thousands of people have been killed in recent years in violence between Muslims and Christians...

2. An individual who seeks to live his or her life according to the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ.
   • 1526, William Bonde, Preface to Pylgrimage of Perfection:

     Ye lyfe of euery christian, is as a pilgremage.

   • 1976, Walter Arnold Kaufmann translating Friedrich Nietzsche in The Antichrist, §39:

     The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 29:

     ‘You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.... And I shall be cheering and laughing as you tumble,’ said Meddlar, his spectacles flashing.
     ‘That's just the warm-hearted Christian in you, sir.’

3. (obsolete, Britain) A European.

上位語

• religionist, theist, monotheist, Abrahamist, People of the Book

下位語

• Christianess
• Christianist
• Catholic
• Orthodox
• Anglican
• Protestant

等位語

• (religionists) religionist; Baha'i,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Wiccan,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion)}

固有名詞

Christian (複数形 Christians)

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek found in England since the twelfth century.
2. A female given name from Ancient Greek of medieval usage, rare today.
3. A patronymic surname, from given names​.

派生語

• Christian County

関連する語

• feminine forms: Christiana, Christina, Christine

形容詞

Christian (comparative more Christian, superlative most Christian)

1. (not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
2. (not comparable) Of, like or relating to Jesus Christ.
3. Kind, charitable; moral; a term of approbation.

   That's very Christian of you.

   • 1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance:

     I cannot help thinking there are people in the world who are very tiresome, very impertinent, and very disagreeable; yet, I don't think it would be a very Christian act were I to tell them so.

   • 1854, Nathaniel James Merriman, The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the frontier farmer, page 74:

     I must say I have seen him do a very Christian act at the Fish River. Some Kafir women were there eating; he begged of them; they refused to give him any food. […] I gave him some of the victuals we were enjoying, and he instantly broke the bread, and gave of it to these very Kafir women who had just refused any of theirs.

   • 1859, David W. Belisle, The American family Robinson, page 290:

     "Besides this," said the trapper, "it is hardly a Christian act to leave these two men to perish by the hands of the savages […]

   • 1867, Henry Shepheard, Ithuriel's spear; or, Is this Christianity?, page 118:

     So, in his esteem, an auto da fé — an "act of faith," as the words mean — is really an act of faith — an act of such faith as the author of "Ecce Homo" approves — a most Christian act — a most humane act […]

   • 1867?, Janet Robertson, Christine; or, Common-Place People

     I have only been at home two days, and here I am come on the third to see you and Tiny, so it is not Christian of you — as my mother would say — to receive your dutiful grand-nephew in such an unkind manner […]

   • 1981, Mary Leader, Salem's Children, →ISBN, page 82

     "Why should I? It's very Christian of you." "People here do not think of me as a Christian, Mitti." "I'd call it Christian charity," I floundered. "You think Christians have a monopoly on charity?" she asked. "Well, no," I stammered.

   • 1995, Patrick Colm Hogan, Joyce, Milton, and the theory of influence, page 88:

     Joyce […] must have found himself likewise in accord with Dante's view that "The Goal of Mankind is Universal Peace," a view to which Dante devoted an entire section of his treatise, and a view opposed to the protestant militancy of the more muscularly Christian Milton.

   • 1996 Nov-Dec, Richard Blow, “Al Franken”, in Mother Jones Magazine‎^[1], volume 21, number 6:

     I didn't think it was very Christian of them, not to call back. Just downright Un-Christian."

   • 2009, Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, page 209:

     Mood and hopes ran high. Onto the stage, into this mélange of black power, military symbolism, and Christian striving, walked Kathryn Johnson.

   • 2010, Linda Woodbridge, English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality, page 268:

     Henry Irving and other Victorian actors easily created empathy for Shylock, even in a muscularly Christian period.

使用する際の注意点

• Use of the term "Christian" in the generalised approbative sense "kind, moral" may be displeasing to some non-Christians.

同意語

• (kind): charitable, helpful, kind, neighborly/neighbourly, sweet (くだけた用法)

反意語

• (of または relating to Christianity または Christians): agnostic, atheist, heathen, non-Christian, pagan
• (charitable, moral): corrupt, immoral, improper, unjust, savage, sinful

派生語

• Christian name

関連する語

参考

• Catholic
• fundamentalist
• Jew
• messiah
• Mormon
• Muslim
• New Testament
• Old Testament
• Protestant

アナグラム

• Christina, trichinas