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evangelist|ɪˈvændʒɪlɪst|
Forms: 2–4 ewan(i)geliste, 3–8 evangelist(e, -yste, (4 euuan-, evaungelist, -istte), 4– evangelist. Also 4 aphet. (after þe) wangelist(e, -yst.
[a. Fr. évangéliste, = Pr., Sp. and It. evangelista, ad. L. ēvangelista, ad. Gr. εὐαγγελιστής, agent-n. f. εὐαγγελίζεσθαι: see evangelize.]
1. One of the writers of the Four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 81 Seint Iohan þe ewangeliste in apocalipsi. c1225Juliana 31 Þe worldes wealdent þat wiste sein iuhan his ewanigeliste unhurt. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 67 And sende Sent Mark þe euangelist in to Egypt. a1300Cursor M. 13977 (Gött.) Als tellis luca þe wangeliste. a1330Roland & V. 153 Jones broþer, þe wangelist. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 243 Cryst clepid hym-self so þe ewangelistes bereth witnesse. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ii. (1520) 14/2 This Asarias and his sone Joas and his nevewe Amasia Mathew the evangelist putteth not in the lyne of Cryst for theyr offences. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. viii. (1634) 27 The three Evangelists write the Historie in base and simple speech. 1697Locke 2nd Vind. Reas. Chr. He is of opinion..if we had nothing but the four Evangelists, we could not be sav'd. 1747J. Scott Chr. Life III. 115 The same may be said of the three other Evangelists. 1833Cruse Eusebius vi. xxxi. 250 In this he most clearly establishes the consistency of two evangelists. 1845Corrie in Encycl. Metrop. 879/1 The Evangelist relates the circumstances attendant on the baptism of Christ.
transf.1587Golding De Mornay xxxiii. 534 He [Apollonius of Thyanie] fetched a yoong wench to life again, but yet his counterfeit Euangelist Philostratus durst not auowe that she was starke dead.
†2. The book of the Gospels; a copy of the Gospels. Obs. [A med.L. use of evangelista; cf. apostolus for a lectionary from the epistles.]
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxii. 260 We swere on the holy euangelist, by vs corporally touched. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. F iij b, Let the Aduocate remember what Christ thunders out in the Euangelist. 1713Steele in Guardian No. 21 ⁋8 To see a well dressed young man produce an evangelist out of his pocket.
3. a. gen. One who preaches the gospel.
1535Coverdale Ps. lxvii. 11 The Lorde shal geue the worde, with greate hoostes of Euangelistes. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 69 b, They [the Pharisees] were as blynde in soule as the beggar, beyng now an euangelyste, was before in body. 1559in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. vi. 11 A woman..is not called to be an evangelist.
transf.1790Burke Fr. Rev. 16 The new evangelists will, I dare say, disappoint the hopes that are conceived of them. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 325 The French Revolution found its Evangelist in Rousseau. 1883Harper's Mag. Sept. 559/1 Mr. Norman Shaw has been the chief evangelist of this strange revival.
b. One who evangelizes or brings the gospel to (a heathen nation, etc.); = apostle 3 b.
Mod. St. Boniface the evangelist of Germany.
c. In the primitive Church, the designation given to a certain class of teachers, mentioned in Eph. iv. 11 after ‘apostles’ and ‘prophets’, and presumably having the function of preaching the gospel to the unconverted. The title has at various periods been revived, usually denoting an itinerant preacher having no fixed pastoral charge. At present, in the usage of various Protestant denominations, it means chiefly a layman commissioned to perform home missionary work.
1382Wyclif Acts xxi. 8 Philip euangelist. Ibid., Eph. iv. 11 He ȝaf ȝiftis to men..And he ȝaf summe sotheli apostlis, summe forsoth prophetis, othere forsothe Euangelistis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 21 Many offices and dignytees of the chirche..as apostles, prophetes, euangelistes, doctours. 1588J. Udall Demonstr. Discipl. (Arb.) 23 Timothie and Titus..were Euangelists, a degree aboue ordinarie ministers. 1611Bible 2 Tim. iv. 5 Endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist. 1681Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 368 It was designed, that there should be in every diocese some who should go round a precinct, and preach like evangelists. 1732Neal Hist. Purit. I. 165 He [John Knox] was a sort of Evangelist over the whole kingdom. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. iv. (1847) 39 Evangelists, who appear to have acted as pioneers and forerunners of a stationary ministry. 1852Conybeare & H. St. Paul (1862) I. xiii. 409 The term Evangelist is applied to those missionaries who..travelled from place to place. 1881Bible (Revised) Eph. iv. 11.
Add:[3.] d. transf. A zealous advocate of a cause or promulgator of a doctrine.
1978P. Howard Weasel Words xxi. 90 It makes sense to say that the French Revolution found its evangelist in Rousseau; that Mary Whitehouse is the evangelist of cleaning up television. 1988Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 10/3 Cleese appears an unlikely evangelist for the shop assistants, double-glazing salesmen and managing directors of this world. |