单词 | evangel |
释义 | evangelevangilen.1 Now archaic or rhetorical. I. In various senses of gospel n. 1. a. The ‘good news’ of redemption to the world through Jesus Christ; the religious teaching contained in the New Testament; the Christian religion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [noun] gospelc950 evangela1340 vangela1340 evangelyc1384 wangel1389 evangelium1541 good news1550 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxviii. 72 Laghe of godis mouth is þe vangel. c1399 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 10 Crist bad him self, how that we schulden preche, And to the folk his evangile teche. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. vii. 224 Nowcht be þe Lauche of þe Ewangyle. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 32 And worthy is thy sonne Christ Iesus, to haue his Euangil and glorie aduanced. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 195 Priestis, tak ȝour staffe, And preiche the Euangell on ȝour feit. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 48 The heavenly ministery of the Evangel. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 9) iv. 90 An Evangile (as the Scots according to the Greek notation, term it) that is, good or glad tidings. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. ii. 34 That worthy man..teacheth the Evangel in truth and sincerity. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. vii. 215 Your ears..deceived you when they were closed against the preachers of the evangele. 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. x. 161 All the other ministers of the Evangel. 1855 R. Williams Rational Godl. xiv. 207 The spirit of the Evangile. 1884 Congregationalist June 459 The gospel is the evangel. b. The ‘Gospel dispensation.’ ΚΠ 1560 Conf. Faith Kirk Scotl. (1811) As the fatheris vnder the law..Sa..we now, in the tyme of the Euangell, haue twa cheif Sacramentis. 2. a. The record of Christ's life as contained in the Four Gospels. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [noun] > as record of Christ's life gospelOE evangely1362 evangel1393 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 34 How that this vice is for to drede In thevangile it telleth pleine. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 436/1 That our lord hath sayd in the holy euangylle. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. iii. f. 10v Christ in ye euangil..confermis the same promis. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 76 b Ye testimonies baith of ye Euangell and of ye Apostle S. Paul ar verray plane. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 273 The ground work..of the triple Evangile. b. One of the ‘Four Gospels’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [noun] > one of gospelc1200 evangely1393 evangelc1400 spell1579 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xv. 67 He made þe Ewangels, in þe whilk es helefull teching and sothefastnes. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. 2v The wordis writtin in S. Mathewis euangel. c1604 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 106 The Evangiles and Acts, teach us what to beleeve, but the Epistles of the Apostles what to do. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 60 Lukes Greek, both in his Evangel as also in the Acts of the Apostles, is most..eligant. 1828 C. Lamb Let. 5 Dec. (1935) III. 193 The Quakers are the only Professors of Christianity as I read it in the Evangiles. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 39 Those infrangible Evangels, welded by the Holy Ghost. 3. plural. Copies of the Gospels; a book containing them, used to impart sanctity to an oath. Rare in singular; attributive in evangel-book. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > containing the gospels evangelsc1386 evangelya1513 evangelist1523 Evangeliar1846 evangelistarium1850 evangelistary1865 tetrevangelium1898 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 568 A Briton book, written with Euaungiles Was fet, and on this book he swoor anoon. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. viii. 184 He is bounde unto hym by othe upon the holy euangilles. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 28 And swoir also vpoun the evangell buik. 1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert II in Regiam Majestatem 51 The Earle of Carrik..made his aith the halie Eu-angellis being tuiched be him. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xxv. 264 I conjured him by the Evangel to alight at my house. 4. transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [noun] > true statement, correct account, truth > true as holy writ gospela1250 scripture1573 evangel1604 gospel-truth1833 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Euangell, the gospell: or glad tidings. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 145 The Attaint upon a false Verdict between party and party, which before was a kind of Euangile, irremediable. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 186 That the Covenant be..esteem'd in all Times coming, the First Evangel. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 136 That..Merline's prophesies [are] evangels. b. A doctrine or principle (pertaining e.g. to politics, social reform, or morals) to which ‘saving’ efficacy is attributed. Sometimes with some notion of the etymological sense ‘good news’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun] > doctrine of gospel1790 evangel1834 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 446/1 La carrière ouverte aux talens..which is our ultimate Political Evangile. 1865 Sat. Rev. 19 622/2 The law of trust is to be henceforth applied under the inspiration of this new evangele. 1879 Contemp. Rev. 36 290 I do not announce a new and perfect evangel to be ushered in by loud flourish of trumpets. II. In etymological sense. 5. A message of glad tidings. Also (nonce-use): a song of joyful promise. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of tiding1069 novela1500 news1574 evangel1842 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > jubilation or loud rejoicing > song or shout of jubilation Io1592 evangel1842 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > joyful song carol1303 lilt1728 revelry1810 evangel1842 1842 H. W. Longfellow Slave Singing at Midnight vi What holy angel Brings the slave this glad evangel? 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 14 Our requiems follow fast on our evangels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). evangeln.2 A proclaimer of the gospel; = evangelist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes fisherc1000 man-fisherc1300 vangelista1330 evangelizer1382 evangelyc1384 evangelist1535 men-fishera1557 seminary1583 evangel1593 Philip1613 evangelica1617 evangelizationer1825 1593 [see evangelship n. at Derivatives]. 1614 W. Alexander Doomes-day ii. xxxviii. sig. F When the Euangell most toyl'd Soules to winne. 1860 C. Sangster Hesperus 13 We heard the evangels relate the glad story. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 157 The great Evangel of Patmos. 1878 J. A. Symonds Sonnets M. Angelo xxxv The true sons of perfidy..Calling themselves evangels of the faith. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes > office of evangelship1593 evangelistshipa1603 evangelistary1656 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 233 No part of their Euangelship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1a1340n.21593 |
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