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English Dictionary: Christ by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Christ
n
  1. a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
    Synonym(s): Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, the Nazarene, Jesus Christ, Christ, Savior, Saviour, Good Shepherd, Redeemer, Deliverer
  2. any expected deliverer
    Synonym(s): messiah, christ
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Christ \Christ\, n. [L. Christus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] anointed, fr.
      chri`ein to anoint. See {Chrism}.]
      The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It
      is synonymous with the Hebrew {Messiah}.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Christ
      anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered
      "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five
      hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that
      he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as
      Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ
      (Acts 17:3; 18:5; Matt. 22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus
      spoken of by Isaiah (61:1), and by Daniel (9:24-26), who styles
      him "Messiah the Prince."
     
         The Messiah is the same person as "the seed of the woman"
      (Gen. 3:15), "the seed of Abraham" (Gen. 22:18), the "Prophet
      like unto Moses" (Deut. 18:15), "the priest after the order of
      Melchizedek" (Ps. 110:4), "the rod out of the stem of Jesse"
      (Isa. 11:1, 10), the "Immanuel," the virgin's son (Isa. 7:14),
      "the branch of Jehovah" (Isa. 4:2), and "the messenger of the
      covenant" (Mal. 3:1). This is he "of whom Moses in the law and
      the prophets did write." The Old Testament Scripture is full of
      prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the
      work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great
      Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name
      denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and
      accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4; Isa. 11:2-4; 49:6;
      John 5:37; Acts 2:22).
     
         To believe that "Jesus is the Christ" is to believe that he is
      the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of
      God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to
      believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be
      brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of
      God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1 Cor. 12:3;
      1 John 5:1).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Christ, anointed
  
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