evangile

See also: évangile and Évangile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French évangile. See evangel.

Noun

evangile

1. Good tidings; evangel.
   • 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Maurocordato and Colocotroni”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:

     Above all, the Servians […] read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “evangile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• inveagle