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Xt en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, uncommon) Alternative form of X, abbreviation of Christ.
   alt of abbreviation of Christ
   alt of X
   • wherfore Dr. Rob. urge this on Georg[e] but now when this is sayd, that Xt came in our nature & has Glorified it as an eternal temple to himself[…]the mistery hid from ages & generations, & then revealed Xᵗ in them the hope of glory[…]& Xt taught himself that it was expedient he went, as outwardly, that he might send them that wᶜʰ would be better for them & wᵗ was that, but his own appearance in Spirit. 1692 November 29, W[illia]m Penn, [To Robert Turner]; republished as “Fruits of Solitude, 1692–1694”, in Marianne S. Wokeck, Joy Wiltenburg, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Craig W. Horle, Richard S[lator] Dunn, and Mary Maples Dunn, editors, The Papers of William Penn, volume three, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, →ISBN, pages 355–356:
   • As to your letter, for wᶜʰ I thanke you, I willingly acknowledge yᵉ Trinity in Unity, and Xᵗ to be not meer man but true God, in yᵉ Scripture sense, therefore I am a Christian.[…]For yᵉ present I must denie yᵗ major, viz. He that denieth yᵗ in Xᵗ wᶜʰ is most essential in him, denieth Xᵗ, for admit your minor was true, yet Jesus was called Xᵗ, in respect of his unction[…]Maldonati in Evang. thinkes yᵗ yᵉ disciples did not know yᵉ eternal generation, till after yᵉ resurrection, and yet they knew yᵗ Jesus was yᵉ Xᵗ, yᵉ Sonne of yᵉ living God, wᶜʰ seem to be used as words of the same importance, Matth. xvi. 16, John vi. 69, and Mark and Luke say only—Thou art yᵉ Xᵗ, and for this confession were declared blessed. Justin Martyr sayeth yᵗ many orthodox Xᵗⁱᵃⁿˢ placed yᵉ divinity of Xᵗ in his unction, as I noted before.[…]To confesse Jesus to be yᵉ Xᵗ is next to nothing since the grand apostacy, but in yᵉ primitive church an exalted Saviour was in better request,[…]He yᵗ beleiveth yᵗ Jesus Xᵗ was conceived by yᵉ Holy Spirit,[…]One said to me yᵉ Pope is exactly orthodox in yᵉ Trinitie, ergo, he is not Anti-Xᵗ. I answered, Hee is Anti-Xᵗ, therefore search him well upon yᵉ hue and cry for that. c. 1680, [Gilbert Clerke], To Baxter, on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians; republished as “Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams’s Library”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XIX, number CCXXIV, Hackney: […] George Smallfield; […] Sherwood, Jones, and Co., […], August 1824, pages 452–453:
   • ... Mr. Urry came to me, and brought a Sketch that one Mr. Foord of Xt. Church had drawn. 1712 February 2, Thomas Hearne, “A Discourse Concerning the Stunsfield Tessellated Pavement”, in Remarks and Collections, volume III, page 397:
   • Letting alone the fact that no doctrinal Xtian could have written La Saisiaz without putting his definite Xtian doctrine into it, my friend Mrs. Orr (Sir F. Leighton’s sister) who has known R.B. as a sister for 12 years, has heard him discuss the subject with friends; & he has distinctly said that he holds Xt to be a man & not God. He’d willingly go on his knees to Xt as one of the best, if not the best, of men, but not as God. 1969, William S. Peterson, “Some Representative Browningites—I”, in Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →LCCN, page 59:
   • Toldoth Jesu: Jewish book about the story of Xt’s birth c. 1875, George Eliot, [Pforzheimer Notebook]; republished as Jane Irwin, editor, George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ Notebooks, Cambridge University Press, 1996, →ISBN, section “Reuchlin Pf 711 95, 96, 97, 98”, page 347:

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Deriveds

Xtian · Xtopher · Xtianity · Xt. Church · Xtina