antichristian

Definition

Pertaining to Antichrist.

Etymology

From Antichrist, but later reinforced and influenced by anti- + Christian.

Example Sentences

• "it was first establisht and put in practice by Antichristian malice and mystery on set purpose to extinguish, if it were possible, the light of Reformation, and to settle falshood; little differing from that policie wherewith the Turk upholds his Alcoran, by the prohibition of Printing."
• "They gave their power and authority to the beast—lent themselves to the support of the antichristian usurpation; prompted to this partly by superstitious reverence for the spiritual authority it claimed, and partly, perhaps chiefly, by political aims and exigencies."
• "To oppose the gathering of churches was described as siding with Antichrist in a pamphlet of 1644. Separation from an antichristian church was permissible."