Christian \Chris"tian\, a.

1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. --Blackstone.

4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.

The graceful tact; the Christian art. --Tennyson.

Christian Commission. See under Commission.

Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)