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Christendom 音标拼音: [kr'ɪsəndəm] n. 基督教界 基督教界 Christendom n 1: the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia); "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom" [synonym: {Christendom}, {Christianity}] Christendom \Chris"ten*dom\, n. [AS. cristend[=o]m; cristen a
Christian -dom.] 1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. [1913 Webster] The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. --Milton [1913 Webster] A wide and still widening Christendom. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 4. The whole body of Christians. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
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