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a. Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.
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Pre-Christian may refer to:
- Before Christianization (the spread of Christianity):
- Historical polytheism (the worship of or belief in multiple deities)
- Historical paganism (denoting various non-Abrahamic religions)
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Before Christ (BC), the era before the year 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
- Classical antiquity, a period of history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, lasting from around the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD
- Iron Age, lasting from around the 12th century BC to the 8th century AD
Usage examples of "pre-christian".
Like all war galleys of pre-Christian times, the quadrireme and quinquereme were rowed by professional oarsmen, never by slaves.
She was single-minded in her unswayable desire to win sympathy and medical intercession from some minor saint and had no curiosity about pre-Christian Rome at all.
It is not for nothing that since pre-Christian times his family had exercised chieftainship over unchartered miles of barren moorland.
Paradise, and the emblem of the cross surrounded by a circle, which, as we will show hereafter, was, from the earliest pre-Christian ages, accepted as the emblem of the Garden of Eden.
Single combat had been common throughout the world in the pre-Christian era and endured in some places through the Middle Ages.
The tie itself and the sentiment based upon it certainly belong to pre-Christian times, and must have been losing rather than gaining in strength during the historic period, say from the fourth century onwards.
Elijah, in Bulgarian Orthodox tradition, is a transmuted version of Perun, a pagan god of lightning and stormy heavens, to whom the pre-Christian Slavs sacrificed bulls and human beings.