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Muscular Christianity

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Healthy or strong-minded religion, which braces a man to fight the battle of life bravely and manfully. This expression has been erroneously attributed to Charles Kingsley. (See his Life, ii. 74, 75.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Munchausen (Baron)
Mundane Egg (The)
Mundilfori
Mundungus
Munera
Munkar and Nakir
Munnin
Muntabur [Mount Tabor]
Murad
Muscadins of Paris
Muscular Christianity
Muses
Museum
Mushroom (an archaic form is mushrump)
Music
Music
Music of the Spheres
Musical Notation
Musical Small - coal Man (The)
Musicians
Musidora