Christ

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Christ \Christ\, n. [L. Christus, Gr. ?, fr. ? anointed, fr.
     chri`ein to anoint. See {Chrism}.]
     The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It
     is synonymous with the Hebrew {Messiah}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Christ
       n 1: a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in
            Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for
            Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29) [syn: {Jesus}, {Jesus
            of Nazareth}, {the Nazarene}, {Jesus Christ}, {Savior},
            {Saviour}, {Good Shepherd}, {Redeemer}, {Deliverer}]
       2: any expected deliverer [syn: {messiah}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "Christ":
     Christ Jesus, Emmanuel, God the Son, God-man, Immanuel, Jesu,
     Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, King of Glory,
     King of Heaven, King of Kings, Lamb of God, Lord Jesus,
     Lord of Lords, Lord our Righteousness, Messiah, Our Lord,
     Prince of Peace, Redeemer, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man,
     atonement, intercession, judgment, mediation, propitiation,
     redemption, salvation, the Advocate, the Anointed, the Christ,
     the Christ Child, the Door, the Galilean, the Good Shepherd,
     the Infant Jesus, the Intercessor, the Judge, the Lamb, the Life,
     the Master, the Mediator, the Nazarene, the Only-Begotten,
     the Risen, the True Vine, the Truth, the Vine, the Way
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Christ
     anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered
     "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five
     hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that
     he was anointed or consecrated to his great redemptive work as
     Prophet, Priest, and King of his people. He is Jesus the Christ
     (Acts 17:3; 18:5; Matt. 22:42), the Anointed One. He is thus
     spoken of by Isaiah (61:1), and by Daniel (9:24-26), who styles
     him "Messiah the Prince."
     
       The Messiah is the same person as "the seed of the woman"
     (Gen. 3:15), "the seed of Abraham" (Gen. 22:18), the "Prophet
     like unto Moses" (Deut. 18:15), "the priest after the order of
     Melchizedek" (Ps. 110:4), "the rod out of the stem of Jesse"
     (Isa. 11:1, 10), the "Immanuel," the virgin's son (Isa. 7:14),
     "the branch of Jehovah" (Isa. 4:2), and "the messenger of the
     covenant" (Mal. 3:1). This is he "of whom Moses in the law and
     the prophets did write." The Old Testament Scripture is full of
     prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the
     work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ is Jesus the Great
     Deliverer, the Anointed One, the Saviour of men. This name
     denotes that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and
     accredited as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4; Isa. 11:2-4; 49:6;
     John 5:37; Acts 2:22).
     
       To believe that "Jesus is the Christ" is to believe that he is
     the Anointed, the Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent of
     God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is to
     believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be
     brought unto God. That Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of
     God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian (1 Cor. 12:3;
     1 John 5:1).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Christ, anointed