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Pre-Christian   /pri-krˈɪstʃən/   Listen
Pre-Christian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or being the time before the beginning of the Christian era.





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"Pre-Christian" Quotes from Famous Books



... applies to the higher clergy. "Cap. 1. The property of God and the Church, 12 fold; Bishop's property, 11 fold; Priest's, 9 fold [the same as the King's]; Deacon's, 6 fold; Clerk's, 3 fold." Next follows one that we may well suppose might have been the first of the pre-Christian code: "Cap. 2. If the king summon his people to him, and one there do them evil—double bt, and 50 shillings to the king." Bede mentions (ii., 5) these laws of thelberht, and especially this feature of them, that they began with the protection ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle


Words linked to "Pre-Christian" :   Christian era


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