Christ

(krist.) [Gr. christos, anointed.] (Eccl. Hist.) Aword synonymous with the Hebrew Me iah, used generally of those who were officially anointed, as kings, priests, and, as some believe, prophets, and more specifically of the Anointed One, who was to be the great King, and Priest, and Prophet of his people. He, according to prophecy, was to be specially anointed by the Holy Spirit (Isaiah lxi. 1). This prophecy Jesus of Nazareth applied to himself (Luke iv. 21); and the disciples recognized him as really anointed, not indeed by external act (unle we may suppose this in his baptism, Matt. iii. 16, 17), but with the Holy Ghost and with power (Acts iv. 27, x. 28); so that he was the expected C. or Me iah, for whom those that looked for redemption in Israel were anxiously waiting.-With us, C. has, through use, become a kind of surname ordinarily attached to Jesus. See JESUS CHRIST. Christ, (ORDERS OF.) 1. After the suppre ion of the order of Templars by Pope Clement 1V. in 1312, the knights were received into Portugal, and their order revived by King Dionysius, with the sanction of Pope John XXII., 1317, under the title of " The Order of our Lord Jesus Christ." They soon became very powerful, and are still very numerous. The king of Portugal is grand-master of the order.- 2. A papal order of merit, formed as a branch of the Portuguese order of same name, by Pope John XXII. The members of its single cla wear a star, from which a decoration in the form ofa cro is suspended. Christ/church, a town of England, co. Hants, in the New Forest, 99 m. S.W. of London. Pop. 10,304. Christen dom, (kris'n-dum.) [From A.S. Crisen, Christian, and dom, jurisdiction.] The Christian world; that is to say, the aggregate of the states and countries where Christianity prevails. [s. 183]