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Antichrist|ˈæntɪkraɪst|
Also 4–5 ante-, 4–7 anticrist, (4 ancrist, 5 ancryst), 6 antycryst, antechriste.
[a. OFr. antecrist(e, ad. L. antechrīstus, a. Gr. ἀντίχρῑστος (1 John ii. 18), f. ἀντί against + χρῑστός Christ.]
1. An enemy or opponent of Christ.
1340Hampole. Pr. Consc. 4227 Fals anticristes he sal þam calle. 1382Wyclif 1 John ii. 18 Now many antecristes ben made. c1400Apol. Loll. 54 Ilk one contrary to Crist is anticrist. 1579Fulke Heskins's Parl. 255 He is defamed of more than heresie, and proued to bee an antichrist. 1646Gaule Cases Consc. 20 A Witch is an Anticrist. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., Jews, Infidels, etc., may be said to be Antichrists. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 587 The first Anti-Christ, Simon Magus, was said to have met his death in some attempt to fly.
2. The title of a great personal opponent of Christ and His kingdom, expected by the early church to appear before the end of the world, and much referred to in the Middle Ages.
a1300Cursor M. 22006 Nu sal yee her, i wil you rede, Hu þat anticrist [v.r. antecrist] sal brede. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4065 Anticrist ar þat tyme sal noght com. Ibid. 3996 Of ancrist commyng, and his pousté. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxx. (1495) 914 The egges of adders..ben wonder yelowe, slimy and gleymy: and of thyse egges comyth Cokatrice: and of the venemous juys shall come Antecrist. a1500in Wright Voc. 217 Hic antechristus, ancryst. 1509Fisher Wks. (1876) 192 God shal make shorte the tyme of Antecryst. 1651Hobbes Leviath. (1839) 552 He handleth the question, whether the Pope be Antichrist? 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Hippolitus and others held that the devil himself was the true Antichrist. 1791D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1834) VI. 247 There were to be three Anti-Christs, and..the last should be born..in the year 1790. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics I. 143 The Franciscans think..that we live in, or near, the days of Antichrist.
b. Applied by some to the Pope or Papal power.
c1370Wyclif Agst. Begging Friers (1608) 24 This false heresie and tyrantrie of Antichrist. 1566Let. Ch. Scot. to Eng. Ch. 27 Dec. 91 The Bishops and Pastors of England, who have renounced the Roman Antichrist. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. vi. (1851) 123 That irreconcileable schisme of perdition and Apostasy, the Roman Antichrist. 1868Milman St. Paul's x. 247 Against that antichrist the Pope.
fig.1728Pope Dunc. ii. 12 Rome in her capitol saw Querno sit, Thron'd on sev'n hills, the Antichrist of wit. |