Adjective: antichristian
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more antichristian |
| Superlative | most antichristian |
Sample Sentences
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it was first establisht and put in practice by Antichristian malice and mystery on set purpose to extinguish, if it were possible, the light of Reformation, and to settle falshood; little differing from that policie wherewith the Turk upholds his Alcoran, by the prohibition of Printing. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:]
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They gave their power and authority to the beast—lent themselves to the support of the antichristian usurpation; prompted to this partly by superstitious reverence for the spiritual authority it claimed, and partly, perhaps chiefly, by political aims and exigencies. [1884, Justin A. Smith, Commentary on the Revelation, page 240:]
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To oppose the gathering of churches was described as siding with Antichrist in a pamphlet of 1644. Separation from an antichristian church was permissible. [1990, Christopher Hill, Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England, page 92:]
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Thus Articles 78 and 80, which unequivocally asserted the pope's antichristian nature, were among the Irish Articles revoked in 1634. [1995, Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600–1640, page 121:]
Adjectives inflected like antichristian
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Antichrist, but later reinforced and influenced by anti- + Christian.