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形容詞

christian (comparative more christian, superlative most christian)

1. Uncommon spelling of Christian.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:

     This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 3:

     The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.

   • 1945, Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy, page ix:

     Of all christian ‘ritual patterns’ that of the eucharist is by common consent central and most important.

   • 1985, Helen Ralston, “Models of ‘Church’: A Cross-cultural Perspective”, in Journal of Comparative Sociology and Religion, number 12, page 22:

     The emergence of basic christian communities as a new radical model of church is closely linked with Latin American Liberation Theology.

   • 1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 21:

     For them liturgy as religion in action with its central role in defining local christian communities, has proved a useful tool for enriching understanding of religious culture in pre-­industrial society.