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To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelis…

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.

Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.

Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.

One who invents or writes fables.

One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

Pertaining to Familists. Baxter.

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]

One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

A gallant. [Obs.] Courting her smoothly like a femalist. Marston.

An upholder of feudalism.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.