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Antichrist

[ an-ti-krahyst ]

noun

, Theology.
  1. a particular personage or power, variously identified or explained, who is conceived of as appearing in the world as the principal antagonist of Christ.
  2. (sometimes lowercase) an opponent of Christ; a person or power antagonistic to Christ.
  3. (often lowercase) a disbeliever in Christ.
  4. (often lowercase) a false Christ.


Antichrist

/ ˈæntɪˌkraɪst /

noun

  1. New Testament the antagonist of Christ, expected by early Christians to appear and reign over the world until overthrown at Christ's Second Coming
  2. sometimes not capital an enemy of Christ or Christianity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Antichrist

  1. A person mentioned in the New Testament as an enemy of Jesus , who will appear before the Second Coming and win over many of Jesus' followers. The Antichrist is often identified with a beast described in the Book of Revelation , whom God destroys just before the final defeat of Satan .


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Notes

Since the New Testament was written, people have frequently tried to prove that an individual human being was the Antichrist. Some of the candidates have been the Roman emperors Nero and Caligula and the modern dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin .
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Derived Forms

  • ˌAntiˈchristian, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Antichrist1

before 1150; Middle English, Old English < Late Latin Antichrīstus < Late Greek Antíchrīstos the Antichrist. See anti-, Christ
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Example Sentences

One prominent Wingnut Web site in particular has been pumping up microchip/Antichrist anxieties: WorldNet Daily.

The McCain campaign even put out a Web ad that seemed to play on Obama-as-Antichrist fears.

Its worldly affairs gave him no concern, and party-spirit was loathsome to him as the very antichrist.

It is well to state here that Daniel mentions Antichrist but once in his prophecies, in chapter xi:36, etc.

See the pictures in the numerous fifteenth century little popular books concerning Antichrist.

"And then shall the wicked be revealed:" no one doubts that this means Antichrist.

These remonstrants drifted by degrees into open antagonists of the Church, and talked of the Pope as the mystical antichrist.

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