(n.) 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.
(n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
(a.) Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
(a.) Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
(a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(4) In previous years, Ukip members have sought a more traditional Christian basis for RE.
(5) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
(6) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) The strikes “without a doubt put communitarian peace in danger,” Hendrik Bogaert, a Flemish Christian Democrat MP, told Le Soir.
(9) It is home to most of the country's five million Muslims, but Christians remain the overall majority.
(10) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
(11) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(12) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(13) There has been no shortage of accusations of widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity against Christian and other minorities in eastern Myanmar and a slow but systematic genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.
(14) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(17) With Christian Eriksen peripheral on the left and Aaron Lennon well policed, the responsibility to unlock Everton came to rest on Dembélé.
(18) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(19) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(20) Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
Cretin
Definition:
(n.) One afflicted with cretinism.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings indicate that this animal model is likely to be suitable for the studies of endemic cretinism in man.
(2) The occurrence of congenital deafness, mutism and goitre unassociated with cretinism or mental retardation in euthyroid patients is known as Pendred's Syndrome.
(3) In 1888 cretinism, myxoedema and cachexia strumipriva were attributed to thyroid insufficiency.
(4) A male patient with clinical and radiographic evidence of cretinism was found to have T3 thyrotoxicosis.
(5) Differences between the two types of cretinism may be explained by continuing postnatal thyroid hormone deficiency in the myxoedematous type, which results in impaired growth, skeletal retardation and sexual immaturity.
(6) Furthermore, these data support the hypothesis that the primary pathophysiologic event in the different types of endemic cretinism is represented by maternal and fetal hypothyroidism, while differences may be explained by the extent and duration of postnatal hypothyroidism.
(7) We conclude that the presence of thyroid growth inhibiting immunoglobulin may be related to the absence of thyroid growth or even thyroid atrophy in endemic cretins.
(8) Although this classification highlights the important neurological sequelae of the disorder it implies that myxoedematous cretins have an alternative mechanism.
(9) Our findings have implications for the definition and diagnosis of endemic cretinism.
(10) To study this question we conducted a five-month follow-up of 51 patients with cretinism (age 14 and below), who were randomly assigned to treatment (0.5 ml of intramuscular iodized oil) and control groups.
(11) Nevertheless, all myxedematous cretins had some neurologic disorders (hyperreflexia, increased muscle tone, disorder of gait, Babinski sign, hypoacusia) that were similar to those present in neurologic cretins.
(12) Our data therefore suggest that the different clinical types of endemic cretinism are in fact the same disorder phenotypically modified by the length and severity of postnatal hypothyroidism.
(13) All the cretins were over 35 of age, suggesting a severe iodine deficiency in the past decades, and a progressive improvement of nutritional status resulted in "silent iodine prophylaxis."
(14) Experimental cretinism, induced by daily propylthiouracil treatment starting at birth, caused increased serotonin levels in all brain regions studied.
(15) These findings provide a pathogenic basis for the variable clinical expression of endemic cretinism.
(16) The cause or causes of endemic cretinism are less clear.
(17) Furthermore, all cretins were growth retarded when compared with peers of similar age and race.
(18) Urinary excretion of acid mucopolysaccharides and glycopeptides in the urine of an untreated patient with cretinism were measured before and after thyroid hormone replacement.
(19) Because the neurologic type of EC represents a defined section of the spectrum of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the term fetal iodine deficiency disorder (FIDD) rather than cretinism is suggested.
(20) A comparative study of EEG between neurological and myxedematous cretins was carried out in a total of 61 cases.