(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.
Galilean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
(a.) Of or relating to Galilee.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
(n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.
(n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans.
Example Sentences:
(1) A telescopic system for distance consisting of a negative contact lens (-10.0 - -20.0 D) as the eye piece and a positive spectacle lens (+8.0 - +16.0 D) as the objective, a modification of the Galilean telescope was examined.
(2) The combination of a high minus setting of the ophthalmoscope and an extra positive lens in front of the patient's eye forms a Galilean telescope that increases magnification in direct ophthalmoscopy.
(3) The Keplerian telescopes, however, had about twice the field of view of the Galilean telescopes.
(4) The modulation transfer functions (MTF's) of 131 low power Galilean and Pechan roof prism Keplerian telescopes comprising 20 models from 7 vendors were measured.
(5) Panoramic prismatic loupes are optically superior to standard binocular Galilean loupes and are rivaled only by operating microscopes.
(6) Repeatably measured central fields of less than 4 degrees diameter showed an unexpected enlargement up to 20 to 40 degrees diameter, when fitted with reversed full field 1.3x and 1.7x Galilean telescopes.
(7) Magnifying spectacles represent one of the indispensable optical aids (Keplerian systems having surpassed Galilean systems during the last years), closed-circuit television, Optacon, and navigating aids based on ultrasound as environmental sensors.
(8) The retinal image size can be assessed using a spectacle-contact lens combination similar to an inverted Galilean telescope system.
(9) The MTF's of Galilean telescopes tested on-axis with vertical and horizontal gratings were equivalent, as expected of rotationally symmetrical devices.
(10) MTF results are compared according to model, by type (Galilean or Keplerian), and magnification.
(11) The method is most simple to apply to short-length, low-powered Galilean tesescopes, such as those used as low vision aids, in sports glasses, and in telescopic loupes.
(12) The Bilevel Telemicroscope Apparatus (BITA) is a new galilean telescope designed to offer improved cosmesis, weight, field of view and spatial orientation over more traditional spectacle-mounted telescopic systems.
(13) Roof-prism Keplerian telescopes provided about one-half the resolution, 30% lower transmittance, and more objectionable image flare than Galilean designs.
(14) The lightweight, mechanically simple instrument uses a variable focus Galilean telescopic observation system to enlarge the condensing lens image of the fundus seen by the examiner.
(15) Galilean telescopes exhibited superior MTF's compared to Keplerian designs.
(16) The pinhole camera, the Keplerian and Galilean telescopes, the corner reflector, optical fibres, and interference filters, are all names of optical devices invented by man.
(17) They are quite different from the Galilean telescopic spectacles, hitherto available, with their lower mangifications, short working distances, chromatic aberration, and peripheral unsharpness.
(18) It states the equivalence mc2 = Bvl coulomb, where 1 is length of a biological string and v is the Galilean inertial velocity of said string through flux density B.
(19) The role of intraocular lens implantation is discussed, as well as the newly developed intraocular lens which, with the addition of a plus-lens, functions as a Galilean telescope to provide magnification for near vision.
(20) The way the pancreatic magnification changer works can be described very simply as a synthesis of two Galilean telescopes.