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  • adjective Of or relating to Christ.

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Christ +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • Finally, I met some people from the Christic institute who had represented the Silkwood family and we had a very long talk because my uncle was an FBI agent in Lawton Oklahoma.

    Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6 2009

  • "'Consumed by Fire from Within™: Teilhard de Chardin's Pan-Christic Mysticism in Relation to the Catholic Tradition", Heythrop Journal, 40 (4), October (1999), pp. Kisselgoff, Anna.

    Pantheism Levine, Michael 2007

  • In December, the scholarly Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted its issue to religious moments ranging from "Christic visions" to "shamanic states of consciousness."

    Religion And The Brain 2007

  • It's a pretty basic assignment that asks only that one read fairly carefully; the key is that our culture tends to use Christic imagery that's either pathos-filled (the pieta and suffering/crucifixion imagery) or pastoral (the Jesus hanging out with little children or teaching imagery), while the poem's imagery is more heroic:

    Archive 2007-01-01 Bardiac 2007

  • For to write a crucifixion scene will automatically invite a Christic comparison.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • For to write a crucifixion scene will automatically invite a Christic comparison.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • From the perspective of medieval Christian symbology, 'Xe' is a combination of the Christic cross and the Greek letter, Epsilon, the first letter in the Greek word, Evangelion, glad tidings or gospel.

    GlobalResearch.ca 2010

  • Perhaps the lamb imagery is too sentimental, too easily Christic for some, but when I looked at that page while listening to the album for easily the fortieth time and suddently thought, "Jesus," the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

    Killing the Buddha 2009

  • Perhaps the lamb imagery is too sentimental, too easily Christic for some, but when I looked at that page while listening to the album for easily the fortieth time and suddently thought, "Jesus," the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

    Killing the Buddha David Griffith 2009

  • Perhaps the lamb imagery is too sentimental, too easily Christic for some, but when I looked at that page while listening to the album for easily the fortieth time and suddently thought, "Jesus," the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

    Killing the Buddha 2009

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