Definition of messianic in English:

messianic

adjectiveˌmɛsɪˈanɪkˌmɛsiˈænɪk

1Relating to the Messiah.
弥赛亚的；救世主的
the messianic role of Jesus
耶稣的救世主角色。
Example sentencesExamples
- In his visionary writings, the prophet Ezekiel describes a great battle on the eve of the messianic era, when the all forces of evil in the world combine themselves into a great army called by the name Gog and Magog.
- For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah.
- What Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, the early church had to do in order to be able to understand, on the basis of the Scriptures, how both death and resurrection were part of God's plan of messianic salvation.
- His best-known work is probably Jesus and the Victory of God, where he takes a more traditional view of Jesus' belief in a future kingdom of God and argues for his messianic self-understanding.
- An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples.
- Jesus did not offer new or unique teachings, urge his followers to prepare for eternal life with God, or fulfill a messianic mission.
- After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness.
- This change was a dramatic demonstration of Christ's message: the messianic community cannot be contained by old patterns, or be defined by past rituals, no matter how treasured they are.
- The messianic promise in Isaiah 11: 1-5 promises a king who will judge with righteousness and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.
- The chief priests and scribes, however, are scandalized by the application of this messianic title to Jesus: ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’
- The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
- If so, also this theme in Jesus' messianic self-understanding has had an impact on the public life of society and the state, not least during the past thirty years in Latin America.
- This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people.
- He pointed to his wonderful deeds, which fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and were wrought by the power of God.
- In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions.
- Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world.
- The followers of Jesus also experience being called as participants into God's messianic mission to bring forth a new creation through a vulnerable mission of love.
- In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people.
- If we take into consideration the passages in I Enoch 46-47, it is clear that the Son of Man figure is depicted as a messianic human figure, resident in heaven and also a judge.
- Even though healing was not the basis for claims about his messianic role or divine identity, the gospels' interpretation of his identity and power include frequent references to that activity.
1. 1.1 Inspired by hope or belief in a messiah.
  弥赛亚式的（心怀希望或相信会获救而激起的）
  the messianic expectations of that time
  那个时代对拯救的期望。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope.
  Hellenization, the Maccabean revolt, Hasmonean rule, the rise of the Pharisees, the Qumran sect, the messianic hope of a coming Davidic King, the rule of Herod, and more are covered.
  In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization.
  All is well, for despite being on the wrong animal, he is surrounded by followers full of messianic hopes.
  Sebastianismo is a messianic belief in the return of King Sebastian, who died in Morocco in 1578 or 1579.
  That is to say, Gentiles were incorporated into the children of Israel by being incorporated into Christ, the Jew, who is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope.
  Defining Judaism in terms of messianic expectation is defining it from a Christian rather than a Jewish perspective.
  Where I think the Jews went ‘wrong’ was in agreeing to Statehood, at all - or at least in justifying statehood with messianic expectations.
  The Zealots may have aimed to provoke a general Jewish uprising against Roman rule, and thus have mixed (in Laqueur's phrase) messianic hope with political terrorism.
  Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief.
  Everyone expressed a feeling that they must continue, and hope and pray for the messianic arrival and redemption.
  These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories.
  The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope.
  While this messianic hope exceeded all of life's experiential limits, it was conceived during the time of the Babylonian exile, at Israel's ‘ground zero.’
  Or perhaps some of the actions and teachings of Jesus aroused strong messianic hopes, but Jesus himself deliberately avoided making an overt claim to be the Messiah.
  At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope.
  I don't have any messianic beliefs that I could have stopped it or other people could have stopped it, but I sure would have like to have tried.
  But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope.
  Not only did the Israelites claim that the world we know is not the world that God intended, but they also expressed their hope in a messianic age in which God's original intention would be realized.
  It's a new, determined, almost messianic belief that the technology that caused all this trouble is what's going to save them now.
2Fervent or passionate.
炽热的；充满激情的
an admirable messianic zeal
令人敬佩的炽热似火的激情。
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, the administration has a messianic commitment to destabilizing the area, under the rubric of ‘democratization.’
- This labouring together month upon month may lend testimony to the ethos of messianic intensity (albeit inverted backwards) oozing from ‘Taming of the Wasps’.
- Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators.
- There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes.
- She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal.
- The messianic idea animated Jewish resistance to Roman occupation and sustained the Jews for centuries in the diaspora.
- From him descended in the subsequent centuries serious intellectuals, hard men ready to commit violence, messianic figures whose zeal seems most foreign to twenty-first-century realities.
- This messianic zeal on the part of Gibreel comes to a sad and realistic end when he finds himself back at Alleluia Cone's door.
- In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic.
- There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal.
- He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up.
- Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good.
- The rain of fiery stones. balls of messianic fire.
- The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal.
- He, however, is determined to go forward, blinded by his messianic militarism and his passion to feed and grow the military-industrial complex while in office.
- A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered.
- The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal.
- And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission.
- This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline.
- While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest.
Synonyms
passionate, impassioned, ardent, earnest, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, keen, enthusiastic, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, fanatical, committed

Derivatives

messianism

nounmɪˈsʌɪənɪz(ə)mməˈsaɪəˌnɪz(ə)m

Is it one driven by an unrestrained messianism, the worship of global ‘democracy,’ the imposition of Western values at gunpoint throughout the world?
Example sentencesExamples
- This places them alongside many other current religious groups who emphasize radicalism, charisma, messianism and fundamentalism.
- At worst, it could unleash an end-of-days messianism in three monotheistic religions, with unforeseeable consequences.
- Shermer lumps superstition, cargo cults, UFO suicide cults, messianism and millennialism with historical religion without making any distinctions between them.
- They also berated the West for its absence of a grand goal and a sense of spiritual messianism.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French messianique, from Messie (see messiah), on the pattern of rabbinique 'rabbinical'.

Rhymes

aldermanic, botanic, Brahmanic, Britannic, epiphanic, galvanic, Germanic, Hispanic, interoceanic, Koranic, manganic, manic, mechanic, oceanic, organic, panic, Puranic, Romanic, satanic, shamanic, talismanic, titanic, transoceanic, tympanic, volcanic

Definition of messianic in US English:

messianic

(also Messianic)

adjectiveˌmɛsiˈænɪkˌmesēˈanik

1Relating to the Messiah.
弥赛亚的；救世主的
the messianic role of Jesus
耶稣的救世主角色。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even though healing was not the basis for claims about his messianic role or divine identity, the gospels' interpretation of his identity and power include frequent references to that activity.
- The chief priests and scribes, however, are scandalized by the application of this messianic title to Jesus: ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’
- This change was a dramatic demonstration of Christ's message: the messianic community cannot be contained by old patterns, or be defined by past rituals, no matter how treasured they are.
- An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples.
- This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people.
- The followers of Jesus also experience being called as participants into God's messianic mission to bring forth a new creation through a vulnerable mission of love.
- For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah.
- Jesus did not offer new or unique teachings, urge his followers to prepare for eternal life with God, or fulfill a messianic mission.
- He pointed to his wonderful deeds, which fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and were wrought by the power of God.
- The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
- Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world.
- In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people.
- After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness.
- What Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, the early church had to do in order to be able to understand, on the basis of the Scriptures, how both death and resurrection were part of God's plan of messianic salvation.
- His best-known work is probably Jesus and the Victory of God, where he takes a more traditional view of Jesus' belief in a future kingdom of God and argues for his messianic self-understanding.
- In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions.
- In his visionary writings, the prophet Ezekiel describes a great battle on the eve of the messianic era, when the all forces of evil in the world combine themselves into a great army called by the name Gog and Magog.
- The messianic promise in Isaiah 11: 1-5 promises a king who will judge with righteousness and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.
- If we take into consideration the passages in I Enoch 46-47, it is clear that the Son of Man figure is depicted as a messianic human figure, resident in heaven and also a judge.
- If so, also this theme in Jesus' messianic self-understanding has had an impact on the public life of society and the state, not least during the past thirty years in Latin America.
1. 1.1 Inspired by hope or belief in a messiah.
  弥赛亚式的（心怀希望或相信会获救而激起的）
  the messianic expectations of that time
  那个时代对拯救的期望。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That is to say, Gentiles were incorporated into the children of Israel by being incorporated into Christ, the Jew, who is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope.
  Sebastianismo is a messianic belief in the return of King Sebastian, who died in Morocco in 1578 or 1579.
  The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope.
  These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories.
  Or perhaps some of the actions and teachings of Jesus aroused strong messianic hopes, but Jesus himself deliberately avoided making an overt claim to be the Messiah.
  The Zealots may have aimed to provoke a general Jewish uprising against Roman rule, and thus have mixed (in Laqueur's phrase) messianic hope with political terrorism.
  While this messianic hope exceeded all of life's experiential limits, it was conceived during the time of the Babylonian exile, at Israel's ‘ground zero.’
  Not only did the Israelites claim that the world we know is not the world that God intended, but they also expressed their hope in a messianic age in which God's original intention would be realized.
  At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope.
  The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope.
  All is well, for despite being on the wrong animal, he is surrounded by followers full of messianic hopes.
  It's a new, determined, almost messianic belief that the technology that caused all this trouble is what's going to save them now.
  But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope.
  In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization.
  Defining Judaism in terms of messianic expectation is defining it from a Christian rather than a Jewish perspective.
  Everyone expressed a feeling that they must continue, and hope and pray for the messianic arrival and redemption.
  Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief.
  Where I think the Jews went ‘wrong’ was in agreeing to Statehood, at all - or at least in justifying statehood with messianic expectations.
  I don't have any messianic beliefs that I could have stopped it or other people could have stopped it, but I sure would have like to have tried.
  Hellenization, the Maccabean revolt, Hasmonean rule, the rise of the Pharisees, the Qumran sect, the messianic hope of a coming Davidic King, the rule of Herod, and more are covered.
2. 1.2 Fervent or passionate.
  炽热的；充满激情的
  an admirable messianic zeal
  令人敬佩的炽热似火的激情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up.
  This messianic zeal on the part of Gibreel comes to a sad and realistic end when he finds himself back at Alleluia Cone's door.
  And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission.
  While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest.
  This labouring together month upon month may lend testimony to the ethos of messianic intensity (albeit inverted backwards) oozing from ‘Taming of the Wasps’.
  She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal.
  The rain of fiery stones. balls of messianic fire.
  A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered.
  Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good.
  The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal.
  This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline.
  In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic.
  From him descended in the subsequent centuries serious intellectuals, hard men ready to commit violence, messianic figures whose zeal seems most foreign to twenty-first-century realities.
  The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal.
  There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes.
  In fact, the administration has a messianic commitment to destabilizing the area, under the rubric of ‘democratization.’
  He, however, is determined to go forward, blinded by his messianic militarism and his passion to feed and grow the military-industrial complex while in office.
  The messianic idea animated Jewish resistance to Roman occupation and sustained the Jews for centuries in the diaspora.
  There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal.
  Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators.
  Synonyms
  passionate, impassioned, ardent, earnest, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, keen, enthusiastic, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, fanatical, committed

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French messianique, from Messie (see messiah), on the pattern of rabbinique ‘rabbinical’.

词汇	messianic
释义	Definition of messianic in English: messianic adjectiveˌmɛsɪˈanɪkˌmɛsiˈænɪk 1Relating to the Messiah. 弥赛亚的；救世主的 the messianic role of Jesus 耶稣的救世主角色。 Example sentencesExamples In his visionary writings, the prophet Ezekiel describes a great battle on the eve of the messianic era, when the all forces of evil in the world combine themselves into a great army called by the name Gog and Magog. For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah. What Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, the early church had to do in order to be able to understand, on the basis of the Scriptures, how both death and resurrection were part of God's plan of messianic salvation. His best-known work is probably Jesus and the Victory of God, where he takes a more traditional view of Jesus' belief in a future kingdom of God and argues for his messianic self-understanding. An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples. Jesus did not offer new or unique teachings, urge his followers to prepare for eternal life with God, or fulfill a messianic mission. After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness. This change was a dramatic demonstration of Christ's message: the messianic community cannot be contained by old patterns, or be defined by past rituals, no matter how treasured they are. The messianic promise in Isaiah 11: 1-5 promises a king who will judge with righteousness and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. The chief priests and scribes, however, are scandalized by the application of this messianic title to Jesus: ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy. If so, also this theme in Jesus' messianic self-understanding has had an impact on the public life of society and the state, not least during the past thirty years in Latin America. This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people. He pointed to his wonderful deeds, which fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and were wrought by the power of God. In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions. Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world. The followers of Jesus also experience being called as participants into God's messianic mission to bring forth a new creation through a vulnerable mission of love. In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people. If we take into consideration the passages in I Enoch 46-47, it is clear that the Son of Man figure is depicted as a messianic human figure, resident in heaven and also a judge. Even though healing was not the basis for claims about his messianic role or divine identity, the gospels' interpretation of his identity and power include frequent references to that activity. 1.1 Inspired by hope or belief in a messiah. 弥赛亚式的（心怀希望或相信会获救而激起的） the messianic expectations of that time 那个时代对拯救的期望。 Example sentencesExamples The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope. Hellenization, the Maccabean revolt, Hasmonean rule, the rise of the Pharisees, the Qumran sect, the messianic hope of a coming Davidic King, the rule of Herod, and more are covered. In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization. All is well, for despite being on the wrong animal, he is surrounded by followers full of messianic hopes. Sebastianismo is a messianic belief in the return of King Sebastian, who died in Morocco in 1578 or 1579. That is to say, Gentiles were incorporated into the children of Israel by being incorporated into Christ, the Jew, who is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope. Defining Judaism in terms of messianic expectation is defining it from a Christian rather than a Jewish perspective. Where I think the Jews went ‘wrong’ was in agreeing to Statehood, at all - or at least in justifying statehood with messianic expectations. The Zealots may have aimed to provoke a general Jewish uprising against Roman rule, and thus have mixed (in Laqueur's phrase) messianic hope with political terrorism. Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief. Everyone expressed a feeling that they must continue, and hope and pray for the messianic arrival and redemption. These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories. The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope. While this messianic hope exceeded all of life's experiential limits, it was conceived during the time of the Babylonian exile, at Israel's ‘ground zero.’ Or perhaps some of the actions and teachings of Jesus aroused strong messianic hopes, but Jesus himself deliberately avoided making an overt claim to be the Messiah. At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope. I don't have any messianic beliefs that I could have stopped it or other people could have stopped it, but I sure would have like to have tried. But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope. Not only did the Israelites claim that the world we know is not the world that God intended, but they also expressed their hope in a messianic age in which God's original intention would be realized. It's a new, determined, almost messianic belief that the technology that caused all this trouble is what's going to save them now. 2Fervent or passionate. 炽热的；充满激情的 an admirable messianic zeal 令人敬佩的炽热似火的激情。 Example sentencesExamples In fact, the administration has a messianic commitment to destabilizing the area, under the rubric of ‘democratization.’ This labouring together month upon month may lend testimony to the ethos of messianic intensity (albeit inverted backwards) oozing from ‘Taming of the Wasps’. Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators. There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes. She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal. The messianic idea animated Jewish resistance to Roman occupation and sustained the Jews for centuries in the diaspora. From him descended in the subsequent centuries serious intellectuals, hard men ready to commit violence, messianic figures whose zeal seems most foreign to twenty-first-century realities. This messianic zeal on the part of Gibreel comes to a sad and realistic end when he finds himself back at Alleluia Cone's door. In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic. There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal. He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up. Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good. The rain of fiery stones. balls of messianic fire. The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal. He, however, is determined to go forward, blinded by his messianic militarism and his passion to feed and grow the military-industrial complex while in office. A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered. The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal. And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission. This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline. While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest. Synonyms passionate, impassioned, ardent, earnest, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, keen, enthusiastic, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, fanatical, committed Derivatives messianism nounmɪˈsʌɪənɪz(ə)mməˈsaɪəˌnɪz(ə)m Is it one driven by an unrestrained messianism, the worship of global ‘democracy,’ the imposition of Western values at gunpoint throughout the world? Example sentencesExamples This places them alongside many other current religious groups who emphasize radicalism, charisma, messianism and fundamentalism. At worst, it could unleash an end-of-days messianism in three monotheistic religions, with unforeseeable consequences. Shermer lumps superstition, cargo cults, UFO suicide cults, messianism and millennialism with historical religion without making any distinctions between them. They also berated the West for its absence of a grand goal and a sense of spiritual messianism. Origin Mid 19th century: from French messianique, from Messie (see messiah), on the pattern of rabbinique 'rabbinical'. Rhymes aldermanic, botanic, Brahmanic, Britannic, epiphanic, galvanic, Germanic, Hispanic, interoceanic, Koranic, manganic, manic, mechanic, oceanic, organic, panic, Puranic, Romanic, satanic, shamanic, talismanic, titanic, transoceanic, tympanic, volcanic Definition of messianic in US English: messianic (also Messianic) adjectiveˌmɛsiˈænɪkˌmesēˈanik 1Relating to the Messiah. 弥赛亚的；救世主的 the messianic role of Jesus 耶稣的救世主角色。 Example sentencesExamples Even though healing was not the basis for claims about his messianic role or divine identity, the gospels' interpretation of his identity and power include frequent references to that activity. The chief priests and scribes, however, are scandalized by the application of this messianic title to Jesus: ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ This change was a dramatic demonstration of Christ's message: the messianic community cannot be contained by old patterns, or be defined by past rituals, no matter how treasured they are. An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples. This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people. The followers of Jesus also experience being called as participants into God's messianic mission to bring forth a new creation through a vulnerable mission of love. For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah. Jesus did not offer new or unique teachings, urge his followers to prepare for eternal life with God, or fulfill a messianic mission. He pointed to his wonderful deeds, which fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and were wrought by the power of God. The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy. Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world. In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people. After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness. What Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, the early church had to do in order to be able to understand, on the basis of the Scriptures, how both death and resurrection were part of God's plan of messianic salvation. His best-known work is probably Jesus and the Victory of God, where he takes a more traditional view of Jesus' belief in a future kingdom of God and argues for his messianic self-understanding. In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions. In his visionary writings, the prophet Ezekiel describes a great battle on the eve of the messianic era, when the all forces of evil in the world combine themselves into a great army called by the name Gog and Magog. The messianic promise in Isaiah 11: 1-5 promises a king who will judge with righteousness and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. If we take into consideration the passages in I Enoch 46-47, it is clear that the Son of Man figure is depicted as a messianic human figure, resident in heaven and also a judge. If so, also this theme in Jesus' messianic self-understanding has had an impact on the public life of society and the state, not least during the past thirty years in Latin America. 1.1 Inspired by hope or belief in a messiah. 弥赛亚式的（心怀希望或相信会获救而激起的） the messianic expectations of that time 那个时代对拯救的期望。 Example sentencesExamples That is to say, Gentiles were incorporated into the children of Israel by being incorporated into Christ, the Jew, who is the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope. Sebastianismo is a messianic belief in the return of King Sebastian, who died in Morocco in 1578 or 1579. The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope. These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories. Or perhaps some of the actions and teachings of Jesus aroused strong messianic hopes, but Jesus himself deliberately avoided making an overt claim to be the Messiah. The Zealots may have aimed to provoke a general Jewish uprising against Roman rule, and thus have mixed (in Laqueur's phrase) messianic hope with political terrorism. While this messianic hope exceeded all of life's experiential limits, it was conceived during the time of the Babylonian exile, at Israel's ‘ground zero.’ Not only did the Israelites claim that the world we know is not the world that God intended, but they also expressed their hope in a messianic age in which God's original intention would be realized. At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope. The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope. All is well, for despite being on the wrong animal, he is surrounded by followers full of messianic hopes. It's a new, determined, almost messianic belief that the technology that caused all this trouble is what's going to save them now. But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope. In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization. Defining Judaism in terms of messianic expectation is defining it from a Christian rather than a Jewish perspective. Everyone expressed a feeling that they must continue, and hope and pray for the messianic arrival and redemption. Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief. Where I think the Jews went ‘wrong’ was in agreeing to Statehood, at all - or at least in justifying statehood with messianic expectations. I don't have any messianic beliefs that I could have stopped it or other people could have stopped it, but I sure would have like to have tried. Hellenization, the Maccabean revolt, Hasmonean rule, the rise of the Pharisees, the Qumran sect, the messianic hope of a coming Davidic King, the rule of Herod, and more are covered. 1.2 Fervent or passionate. 炽热的；充满激情的 an admirable messianic zeal 令人敬佩的炽热似火的激情。 Example sentencesExamples He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up. This messianic zeal on the part of Gibreel comes to a sad and realistic end when he finds himself back at Alleluia Cone's door. And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission. While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest. This labouring together month upon month may lend testimony to the ethos of messianic intensity (albeit inverted backwards) oozing from ‘Taming of the Wasps’. She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal. The rain of fiery stones. balls of messianic fire. A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered. Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good. The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal. This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline. In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic. From him descended in the subsequent centuries serious intellectuals, hard men ready to commit violence, messianic figures whose zeal seems most foreign to twenty-first-century realities. The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal. There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes. In fact, the administration has a messianic commitment to destabilizing the area, under the rubric of ‘democratization.’ He, however, is determined to go forward, blinded by his messianic militarism and his passion to feed and grow the military-industrial complex while in office. The messianic idea animated Jewish resistance to Roman occupation and sustained the Jews for centuries in the diaspora. There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal. Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators. Synonyms passionate, impassioned, ardent, earnest, fervent, fervid, hot-blooded, zealous, vehement, fiery, heated, feverish, emotional, heartfelt, eager, keen, enthusiastic, excited, animated, spirited, vigorous, strong, energetic, fanatical, committed Origin Mid 19th century: from French messianique, from Messie (see messiah), on the pattern of rabbinique ‘rabbinical’.
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