“pre、Christian”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pre-Christian

释义

pre-Christian, a.|priːˈkrɪstjən|
[pre- B. 1.]
1. Of or pertaining to times prior to the birth of Christ or the Christian era; before Christ.
1828G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy II. iii. i. 39 A circumstance, itself fixed..to the middle of the seventh pre⁓christian century.1885J. M. Ludlow in Homilet. Rev. Apr. 281 The Talmud and Targums..preserve for us the records of the opinions..of the pre-Christian age.
2. Prior to the introduction or local prevalence of Christianity.
1861Wilson & Geikie Mem. E. Forbes i. 23 Ruins still more ancient survive from pre-Christian times.1861Wright Ess. Archæol. I. vii. 110 Anglo-Saxon antiquities of the pre-Christian age.
So pre-Christiˈanic a. rare^—1. = sense 2.
1883J. F. M'Lennan in Encycl. Brit. XV. 89/2 The loupgarou..fell back into his pre-Christianic position of being simply a ‘man-wolf-fiend’.

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