Word Meanings - EVANGELISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• PREACH
  cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
• PREACHMENT
  A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
• GOSPELIZE
  1. To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us. Milton. 2. To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. Boyle.
• PREACHIFY
  To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• PREACHER
  1. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14. 2. One who inculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird , a toucan.
• PREACHMAN
  A preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell.
• GOSPEL
  1. Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the
• GOSPELER
  1. One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif. 2. A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the
• PROMULGATION
  The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. South.
• PREACHING
  The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• DISGOSPEL
  To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel. Milton.
• UNPREACH
  To undo or overthrow by preaching. De Foe.