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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
messianic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The group works to preserve the environment with messianic zeal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then if Lubavitch is right and the messianic age is upon us, the criticisms will scarcely matter very much.
▪ But they radiate a splendid messianic heat.
▪ Hard to imagine anyone using that kind of messianic language today.
▪ In the years that followed, Fred Eaton would become messianic about the water shortage he saw approaching.
▪ The ironic vision destroys such messianic aspirations.
▪ The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
▪ Unable to offer even partial comfort here and now, they promised a glorious messianic redemption in the end of days.
▪ We are in mourning for the passing of our messianic delusions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Messianic

Messianic \Mes`si*an"ic\, a. Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
messianic

1831, from Modern Latin messianicus, from Messias (see messiah).

Wiktionary
messianic

a. 1 Of, relating to, or resembling a messiah, the Messiah. 2 Of, relating to, or resembling messianism (Messianism).

WordNet
messianic

adj. of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance; "messianic cult"

Wikipedia
Messianic

Messianic primarily means "of the Messiah", a religious savior in Abrahamic religions

It may also refer to:

  • Messianism, belief in a Messiah, savior or redeemer
    • Messiah in Judaism
    • Messiah in Christianity
    • False Messiah
      • Antichrist
    • Messiah in Chabad

Religion

  • Church of World Messianity, a new religious movement in Brazil and Japan
  • Messianic Israel Alliance, an organization for Christians and Messianic Jews
  • Council of Messianic Yisrael Congregations, Northeast India, the apex and largest forum of Messianic believers amongst the B'nei Menashe (one of the lost tribes of Israel) of northeastern state of India - Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, etc.
  • Messianic Judaism, a religious movement incorporating elements of Judaism with the tenets of Christianity
  • Meshichism (also: Chabad messianism, Lubavitcher messianism, Habad mishichism), a religious movement incorporating Jewish messianism with elements of Early Christian eschatology and Christian messianism on the edge of minuth

Other uses

  • Messianic Complex, a psychological state of mind
  • Totalitarian democracy, also known as Messianic democracy, a democracy where voting is a citizens only right
  • Olivier Messiaen, a French composer, organist, and ornithologist

Usage examples of "messianic".

Begin was ready to indulge messianic Jewish settlers and ultra-Orthodox rabbis who wanted to use the Israeli parliament to delegitimize the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism.

Dexter had sworn off messianic attempts to save the world after the fiasco of THE TRANSFORMATION, and had developed a far keener and more jaundiced awareness of the Faustian temptation thereof in the years since.

Jesus assumes his death to be a part of the Messianic fate and interprets the Scriptures as necessarily pointing to that effect.

This proof was not used in the first place for the purpose of making the meaning and value of the Messianic work of Jesus more intelligible, of which it did not seem to be in much need, but to confirm the Messiahship of Jesus.

Crisis cultures, cargo cults, nativistic movements, messianics: everyone on this road-strewn surface survives the present by naming it a station, an inscrutable detour on the way to the next age, the next image, the next frame.

Israel clipped her Messianic promises and lived upon the clippings instead of upon the coin.

Neither acts of war, nor massacres, nor depredation had resulted from the numerous Messianic revivals.

Ling might have been much better off remaining forever in the warmth of hightech habitats, basking in the glow of a messianic faith.

First at Alexandria, then across the Levant, a general agitation began, as if triggered by some prophetic ‘device’, which culminated in the great messianic events of Christianity.

From the beast that outplays a berserker by rote in "Without a Thought" to the messianic child in Berserker Man, irony is a recurring element in the series.

For all his incredible -- even messianic -- force of character, Michael of Macedonia was as ill-suited a man as Belisarius had ever met for the executive task of leading a coherent and disciplined religious movement.

Ben-Judah created an uproar, particularly among Jews, when at the end of the live, globally televised airing of his views he announced that Jesus the Christ was the only person in history to fulfill all the Messianic prophesies, and that the vanishings were evidence that he had already come.