Christian (Fletcher), mate of the Bounty, under the command of captain Bligh, and leader of the mutineers.  After setting the captain and some others adrift, Christian took command of the ship, and, according to lord Byron, the mutineers took refuge in the island of Toobouai (one of the Society Islands).  Here Torquil, one of the mutineers, married Neuha, a native.  After a time a ship was sent to capture the mutineers.  Torquil and Neuha escaped, and lay concealed in a cave; but Christian, Ben Bunting, and Skyscrape were shot.  This is not according to fact, for Christian merely touched at Toobouai, and then, with eighteen of the natives and nine of the mutineers, sailed for Tahiti, where all soon died except Alexander Smith, who changed his name to John Adams, and became a model patriarch.—­Byron, The Island.

CHRISTIAN DOCTOR (Most), John Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429).

CHRISTIAN ELOQUENCE (The Founder of), Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704).

CHRISTIAN KING (Most).  So the kings of France were styled.  Pepin le Bref was so styled by pope Stephen III. (714-768).  Charles II. le Chauve was so styled by the Council of Savonnieres (823, 840-877).  Louis XI. was so styled by Paul II. (1423, 1461-1483).

CHRISTIAN’A (ch = k), the wife of Christian, who started with her children and Mercy from the City of Destruction long after her husband’s flight.  She was under the guidance of Mr. Greatheart, and went, therefore, with silver slippers along the thorny road.  This forms the second part of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1684).

CHRIS’TIE (2 syl.) of the Clint Hill, one of the retainers of Julian Avenel (2 syl.).—­Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).

Chris’tie (John), ship-chandler at Paul’s wharf.

Dame Nelly Christie, his pretty wife, carried off by lord Dalgarno.—­Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).

CHRISTI’NA, daughter of Christian II. king of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.  She is sought in marriage by prince Arvi’da and by Gustavus Vasa; but the prince abandons his claim in favor of his friend.  After the great battle, in which Christian is defeated by Gustavus, Christina clings to her father, and pleads with Gustavus on his behalf.  He is sent back to Denmark, with all his men, without ransom, but abdicates, and Sweden is erected into a separate kingdom.—­H.  Brooke, Gustavus Vasa (1730).

CHRISTINA PURCELL, a happy, pure girl, whose sheltered life and frank innocence contrast strongly with the heavy shadows glooming over outcast “Nixy” in Hedged In.

She [Nixy], looking in from the street at mother and child, wondered if the lady here and the white daughter were religious; if it were because people were white and religious that they all turned her from their doors,—­then, abruptly, how she would look sitting in the light of a porcelain lamp, with a white sack on.—­Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Hedged In (1870).