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Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness. Bp. Warburton.

One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif.

To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. Boyle.

s the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

o put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.

A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [R.]

o-day. Ex. xiv. 13. Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chie…

An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.

The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

ientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.…

had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. Landor.

States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.