Christianistn.adj.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't iii. 419 It is a madnes to pretend that a Christian soul is really, and properly, a throne of an Apostle, that those twelve partes of Christianist's [perhaps read Christianists] whose distinction is unknown to the Apostles should bee really and properly twelve Provinces to bee governed by their Episcopall presiding.

1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1804 3 x. 68/1 But Chateau-briand, and the christianists, are noticed as great men.

1833 Free Enquirer 26 Jan. 107/2 Whoever heard a preacher, either Catholic, Calvinist, Universalist, or any other Christianist, magnanimously tell his hearers that he required not their implicit belief to what he was preaching.

1874 Christian Ambassador 12 88 The Idealist subjects nature to reason; the Realist subjects reason to nature—whilst the Christianist subjects nature to grace, and reason to revelation.

1922 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 22 Jan. iii. 10/1 (heading) Belongs to cult of Christianists.

1999 Christian Cent. 16 June 649/1 Christianists devoted themselves to ‘the advancement of Christianity as the one, most perfect way of serving God’.

1994 A. Hamdani in Digest Middle East Stud. Summer 36 Islamist..is an unhappy expression. We do not say Christianist, Judaist,..Hinduist, then why, Islamist?

2003 A. sullivan dish.andrewsullivan.com 30 June (blog, accessed 13 Feb. 2014) I propose a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

2004 Arizona Republic (Electronic ed.) 23 Dec. b6 Christianity is not the established religion of the United States, and Christianists should stop acting as if it is!

2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 11 Sept. a10 The Tories' long tail certainly includes Christianists and Charter-repealers and anti-francophone zealots.

2008 Chicago Daily Herald 12 Sept. 14 McCain caved in to the rigid Christianists who now form the core of the GOP.

1906 Christian Reg. (Boston) 19 Apr. 425/2 The revival of the discussion of euthanasia in America leads a Hindoo critic to denounce the practice of ‘the civilized and Christianist ways’ and to cry that ‘civilization is running mad’.

1965 Numen 12 41 The Christianist strategy of thought could ill afford to put the Old Testament under the light of the comparative discipline.

1997 Prince Hassan bin Talal in Federal News Service (Nexis) 16 June I asked my audience,..is there an equivalent to Islamist terror? Is there ‘Christianist’ terror or ‘Judeist’ terror?

2002 Denver Post (Nexis) 22 Dec. e3 Has he fallen victim to the christianist arrogance that has taken the Christian observance of the birth of their messiah and turned it into a national potlatch?

2011 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 3 Aug. a8 This largely Christianist movement has extended its Biblical literalism to the American Constitution.