achristn.
/ˈeɪkrʌɪst/, U.S. /ˈeɪˌkraɪst/ rare.
A person who does not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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1584 J. Rainolds Six Concl. in J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. 663 Our countrey is full not of men, but of monsters, of Atheistes, of Achrists, of them who beleeue not that a mans soule dooth liue more then a beasts when it is gone out of the body.
1680 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) II. 189 He concluded he [sc. Sir Walter Raleigh] was an a-christ, not an atheist.
1932 A. Lane tr. L. de Grandmaison Jesus Christ II. iv. iii. 275 ‘Achrists’ [Fr. ‘Achrists’]... I prefer to call them ‘antichrists’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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