Xt

• Xt.

Xt

1. (uncommon, now archaic) Alternative form of X, abbreviation of Christ.
   • c. 1680, [Gilbert Clerke], To Baxter, on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians; republished as “Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams’s Library”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XIX, number CCXXIV, Hackney: […] George Smallfield; […] Sherwood, Jones, and Co., […], 1824 August, pages 452–453:

     As to your letter, for w^ch I thanke you, I willingly acknowledge y^e Trinity in Unity, and X^t to be not meer man but true God, in y^e Scripture sense, therefore I am a Christian. […] For y^e present I must denie y^t major, viz. He that denieth y^t in X^t w^ch is most essential in him, denieth X^t, for admit your minor was true, yet Jesus was called X^t, in respect of his unction […] Maldonati in Evang. thinkes y^t y^e disciples did not know y^e eternal generation, till after y^e resurrection, and yet they knew y^t Jesus was y^e X^t, y^e Sonne of y^e living God, w^ch seem to be used as words of the same importance, Matth. xvi. 16, John vi. 69, and Mark and Luke say only—Thou art y^e X^t, and for this confession were declared blessed. Justin Martyr sayeth y^t many orthodox X^tians placed y^e divinity of X^t in his unction, as I noted before. […] To confesse Jesus to be y^e X^t is next to nothing since the grand apostacy, but in y^e primitive church an exalted Saviour was in better request, […] He y^t beleiveth y^t Jesus X^t was conceived by y^e Holy Spirit, […] One said to me y^e Pope is exactly orthodox in y^e Trinitie, ergo, he is not Anti-X^t. I answered, Hee is Anti-X^t, therefore search him well upon y^e hue and cry for that.

   • 1692 November 29, W[illia]m Penn, [To Robert Turner]; republished as “Fruits of Solitude, 1692–1694”, in Marianne S. Wokeck, Joy Wiltenburg, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Craig W. Horle, Richard S[lator] Dunn, and Mary Maples Dunn, editors, The Papers of William Penn, volume three, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, →ISBN, pages 355–356:

     wherfore Dr. Rob. urge this on Georg[e] but now when this is sayd, that Xt came in our nature & has Glorified it as an eternal temple to himself […] the mistery hid from ages & generations, & then revealed X^t in them the hope of glory […] & Xt taught himself that it was expedient he went, as outwardly, that he might send them that w^ch would be better for them & w^t was that, but his own appearance in Spirit.

   • 1712 February 2, Thomas Hearne, “A Discourse Concerning the Stunsfield Tessellated Pavement”, in Remarks and Collections, volume III, page 397:

     ... Mr. Urry came to me, and brought a Sketch that one Mr. Foord of Xt. Church had drawn.

   • c. 1875, George Eliot, [Pforzheimer Notebook]; republished as Jane Irwin, editor, George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ Notebooks, Cambridge University Press, 1996, →ISBN, section “Reuchlin Pf 711 95, 96, 97, 98”, page 347:

     Toldoth Jesu: Jewish book about the story of Xt’s birth

   • 1969, William S. Peterson, “Some Representative Browningites—I”, in Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →LCCN, page 59:

     Letting alone the fact that no doctrinal Xtian could have written La Saisiaz without putting his definite Xtian doctrine into it, my friend Mrs. Orr (Sir F. Leighton’s sister) who has known R.B. as a sister for 12 years, has heard him discuss the subject with friends; & he has distinctly said that he holds Xt to be a man & not God. He’d willingly go on his knees to Xt as one of the best, if not the best, of men, but not as God.

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Xt

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of ẖt.