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evangelic, a. and n.|iːvæn-, ɛvænˈdʒɛlɪk|
Forms: 5–6 evangelik(e, -yke, 6–8 -ick(e, 7 -ique, 7– evangelic.
[ad. late L. ēvangelic-us, a. Eccl. Gr. εὐαγγελικός, f. εὐαγγέλιον: see evangely.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the Gospel.
a. Of or pertaining to the Gospel narrative, or to the Four Gospels.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xv. (1596) 332 That this doctrin is true and catholicke, the letter of the Euangelicke text prooueth. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet Wks. 1721 I. 393 His Evangelick Volume to compleat. a1806S. Horsley Serm. (1811) 313 The evangelic maxim, that ‘no man can serve two masters’. 1858Sears Athan. ii. x. 233 So we understand the Evangelic narrative. 1885Salmon Introd. N.T. viii. 131 note, It is an arrangement of the Evangelic text in the form of a harmony.
b. Of or pertaining to the faith or precepts of the Gospel, or to the Christian religion; pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Gospel dispensation.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iii. ii. 143 Those y⊇ whiche haue auowed pouerte euangelyke. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. ii, In the tother parte (as it were with an euangelik sermone) he calleth them all and vs to the knowlege of cryste. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 68 b, Farre from the Euangelicke doctrine and holy Canons. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. 1738 I. 581 In the first Evangelic Times. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 197 That primitive evangelick poverty. 1806A. Knox Rem. I. 12 His [Boethius'] book ‘De consolatione Philosophiæ’ is Platonic not evangelic. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iv. (ed. 2) 64 Let the younger scholar be taught..the grounds and motives of evangelic obedience. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 412 A Hebrew ode was made to yield evangelic dogma.
c. evangelic prophet: see evangelical 1 c.
1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 14 Peruse that Vers of the Evangelic Prophet, if this iniquitie be purged from you, etc.
†d. In uncertain sense; perh. ‘pious’. Obs.
1460–70Bk. Quintessence i. 1 How þat olde euangelik men, and feble in kynde, myȝte be restorid, and haue aȝen her firste strenkþis of ȝongþe. Ibid. ii. 15 To reduce an oold feble euangelik man to þe firste strenkþe of ȝongþe.
2. As the designation of a sect or party. (Now usually evangelical.)
a. = evangelical 2 a.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe Countries i. 33 b, The Euangelike Churches both of hygh and lowe Germanie. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Idea Wks. 220 Two eminent religions..the Roman, and that which is protestant or evangelick. 1758Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 50/2 They had rather a contrary effect in rousing the whole evangelic body to a sense of their own danger. 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. VI. 318 When the three religions were established in Germany, they were..declared to be Evangelick, the Reformed and the Catholick.
b. = evangelical 2 b.
1812J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 197 A far nearer approach to the genius of a hierarchy than we can at all discern in our evangelic churchmen. 1814Scott Wav. xxx, I have never been able to discover which he belonged to, the evangelic, or the moderate party in the kirk. 1850P. Crook War of Hats 24 Why not excite petitions to proscribe The chapels of the evangelic tribe? 1874Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxv. Introd., The purely evangelic annotators [in contrast with the sceptical].
B. n.
†1. The adj. used absol.: see A. 1 c. Obs.
a1617S. Hieron Aaron's Bells (1623) 11 Jerome sticks not to call hem [Esay] an Evangelicke.
†2. A Protestant; = evangelical B. 1. Obs.
1616Brent tr. Sarpi's Council Trent (1676) 387 The Protestants did increase in Germany, and the Evangeliques did multiply amongst the Suisses. 1660R. Blome Fanat. Hist. i. 5 They [the Anabaptists]..troubled the Evangeliques more than the papists. 1688True Spirit of Popery 6 He made a Gaol of his own House, such was his inveterate Malice against the Evangelics. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. i. 41 Now did both the Evangelics and the Papalins bestir themselves for their parties. 1758Jortin Erasm. I. 442, I abhor the Evangelics.
†3. A member of the Evangelical party, Obs.; = evangelical B. 2.
1812A. Knox in J. Jebbs's Corr. (1834) II. 100 A good evangelic, mild and pious, rooted in the ways of worthy Wilberforce. |