a. rare. [f. EPIC- + CHRISTIAN a.] Pertaining to the age not long after Christ. (App. invented by De Quincey, who explains that he uses it ‘of all agencies that belonged to the primary movements of Christianity.’)
1840. De Quincey, Essenes, Wks. ix. 268. During the whole of this noviciate for Christianity, and, in fact, throughout the whole Epichristian era [etc.].
1860. Guardian, 20 June. The loss of the epichristian Hindu literature, no less than that of still greater antiquity, has been very considerable.
