Definition of Before Christ

1. Adverb. Before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born. "In 200 BC"

Exact synonyms: B.c., Bc

Lexicographical Neighbors of Before Christ

befoaming
befoams
befog
befogged
befogging
befogs
befold
befool
befooled
befooling
befools
befor
before
before't
before-and-after
before Christ (current term)
before dark
before long
before someone's time
before the mast
before you can say Jack Robinson
beforecited
beforehand
beforehand(p)
beforemath
beforemaths
beforementioned
beforenamed
beforeness
beforestated

Literary usage of Before Christ

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"... he had a real being and existence before Christ was conceived by the Virgin Mary. But all these we have already shewed belong unto the Son of God. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"or before Christ (в. с.). It is to be noted that there is no year Ü intervening, as some have imagined, between в. с. and AD It is supposed by many that the ..."

3. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... FIRST CENTURY before Christ I HISTORICAL TRADITIONS At least historically, the First Century before Christ comprises more names and facts unforgotten by ..."

4. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"10, was governor of one of the small provinces in or about Palestine, in the year 445, before Christ, which was the time of that building of the wall of ..."

5. The Book of the Twelve Prophets Commonly Called the Minor by George Adam Smith (1898)
"CHAPTER I THE SEVENTH CENTURY before Christ THE three prophets who were treated in the first volume of this work belonged to the eighth century before ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Founded, it ia supposed, by Pelasgians, it became connected with the Latin League, and about the beginning of the 4th century before Christ passed into the ..."

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