Antichristn.
1. An enemy or opponent of Christ.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > an enemy of
Antichrist1340
Satanas1590
Satan1603
counter-Christ1655
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4227 Fals anticristes he sal þam calle.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 John ii. 18 Now many antecristes ben made.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 54 Ilk one contrary to Crist is anticrist.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 255 He is defamed of more than heresie, and proued to bee an antichrist.
1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 20 A Witch is an Anticrist.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) (at cited word), Jews, Infidels, &&c. may be said to be antichrists.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 587 The first Anti-Christ, Simon Magus, was said to have met his death in some attempt to fly.
2. fig.1729 Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 12 Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit, Thron'd on sev'n hills, the Antichrist of Wit.
a. 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.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > the Antichrist
Antichrist1340
the Beasta1425
vicar1641
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4065 Anticrist ar þat tyme sal noght com.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3996 Of ancrist commyng, and his pousté.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietat. Rerum (1495) xix. lxxx. 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.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22006 Nu sal yee her i wil you rede, Hu þat anticrist [Fairf., Gött. antecrist] sal brede.
a1500 in Wright Voc. 217 Hic antechristus, ancryst.
1509 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 192 God shal make shorte the tyme of Antecryst.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan (1839) 552 He handleth the question, whether the Pope be Antichrist?
1753 E. Chambers Cycl. Suppl. Suppl. s.v., Hippolitus and others held that the devil himself was the true Antichrist.
1791 I. D'Israeli Curiosities Lit. (1834) VI. 247 There were to be three Anti-Christs, and..the last should be born..in the year 1790.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with 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.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
c1370 Wyclif Against Begging Friers (1608) 24 This false heresie and tyrantrie of Antichrist.
1566 Let. Ch. Scot. to Eng. Ch. 27 Dec. 91 The Bishops and Pastors of England, who have renounced the Roman Antichrist.
1641 Milton Reason Church-govt. 22 That irreconcileable schisme of perdition and Apostasy, the Roman Antichrist.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral x. 247 Against that antichrist the Pope.
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