WordNet
adv. before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born; "in 200 BC" [syn: BC, B.C.]
Usage examples of "before christ".
It was used by Lao-Tse and Buddha some 500 or 600 years before Christ, but it is not a principle which as a matter of fact Christians accept.
If I came before Christ with only a crown of thorns, might he not ask them: `Where is your gospel?
Christianity was a vehicle for ideas in circulation for centuries before Christ.
I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession.
There was no sound, but the woman said to her, Before Christ ever was, I am, and it was I who made you as you are.
The present Christian dogma has no name for it, unless it be that nebulous limbo which is occasionally mentioned, and is usually defined as the place where the souls of the just who died before Christ were detained.
It started back about two thousand years before Christ, in Mycenaean times or perhaps early Helladic.