Dictionary

gospeler en · NOUN

Etymology

From gospel + -er (occupational suffix). Compare Middle English gospellere (“one of the Evangelists; book containing the Gospels”), from Old English godspellere.

Meanings

1. A person who preaches from the Gospels
2. A singer of gospel music
3. (Early, Modern, obsolete) A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
   • You know I have conferred with many, and I ensure you, I never found man, so far as I do remembre, neyther old nor new Gospeller or Papist, of what judgment soever he was, in this thing to be a contrary opinion. 1554 April 8, Nicholas Ridley, “Dr. Ridley late Bishop of London to West, formerly his Steward […]”, in John Strype, editor, Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer […], published 1694, page 202:
   • He for some time kept School at Reading in Barkshire, but after a time being found to be a Gospeller he was forced to fly thence, and repairing to his own Mother, who was a Papist. 1682, England’s Remembrancer […], London: E. Smith, page 152:
   • If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kinde of supersticion to feede vpon. If thou be a gospeller, no man shall aske why thou comest not to churche. 1549, William Thomas, The historie of Italie […], page 85:

Forms

Deriveds

hot gospeler

Synonyms

evangelist (preacher)