combining form of Gr. Χριστός or L. Christus CHRIST, as in Christo-centric a. [see CENTRIC], having Christ as its center; † Christo-crucian, Obs. nonce-wd. [f. L. crux, cruc-is cross + -IAN, after Rosicrucian], one devoted to the cross of Christ; Christolatry, worship of Christ as divine; Christomaniac [see MANIAC].
1873. trans. Van Oosterzee’s Chr. Dogmatics, I. § 7. The claim that Christian Dogmatics shall be Christo-centric.
1888. J. Clifford, in Contemp. Rev., April, 522. Fuller could not make his theology ‘Christo-centric’ without initiating a radical change in the Idea of God.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 566. Let Rosie-crucians be dumb … a Christocrucian (of which this Apostle was none of the meanest) is an order [etc.].
1819. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 71. The progress of the Christolatry from the lowest sort of Christodulia.
1880. Swinburne, Study Shaks., 213. The whole Thebaid of Christomaniacs rolled into one.
