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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Christian Science mean?
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (noun)
The noun CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has 2 senses:
1. Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
2. religious system based on teachings of Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual healing
Familiarity information: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Christian Science; Church of Christ Scientist
Hypernyms ("Christian Science" is a kind of...):
Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)
Meronyms (members of "Christian Science"):
Christian Scientist (a member of the Protestant church founded in the United States by Mary Baker Eddy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Religious system based on teachings of Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual healing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Christian Science" is a kind of...):
Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)
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