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Messianic, a.|mɛsɪˈænɪk|
[ad. mod.L. Messīānic-us, f. Messīās: see Messiah and -ic. Cf. F. messianique, G. messianisch.]
Of, pertaining to, or relating to the Messiah.
a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 15 It [Ps. lxxxvii] seems clearly Messianic. Ibid. 179 Doubts of his [Christ's] Messianic character and divinity. 1883Farrar St. Paul (1883) 107 In all ages the Messianic hope had been prominent in the minds of the most enlightened Jews.
Hence Messiˈanically adv., as referring to the Messiah.
So Meˈssianism, belief in a coming Messiah; Meˈssianize v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to imbue with a Messianic character.
1896Academy 18 July 52/1 This expression..was very soon after understood Messianically.
1876Bp. Alexander Witness of Ps. (1877) 23 It will be observed that any one Psalm, definitively Messianised, is pregnant with the Messianic principle. Ibid., Messianism becomes at once the central scheme. 1904Contemp. Rev. Aug. 198 Jesus Christ gets behind the formal Messianism of his time. |