gospeler
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gospel + -er (occupational suffix). Compare Middle English gospeler (“one of the Gospel writers or Evangelists; statue of one of the Evangelists; (of Old Testament persons) bringer of good news; Isaiah; book containing the Gospels; content of one of the Gospels”), from Old English godspellere.
Noun
[edit]gospeler (plural gospelers)
- A person who preaches from the Gospels
- (music) A singer of gospel music
- (obsolete, Early Modern) A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
- 1549, William Thomas, The historie of Italie […][1], page 85:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1682, England’s Remembrancer […], London: E. Smith, page 152:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (preacher): evangelist