Crossword clues for evangelize
evangelize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
evangelize \e*van"gel*ize\ ([-e]*v[a^]n"j[e^]l*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. evangelized ([-e]*v[a^]n"j[e^]l*[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. evangelizing ([-e]*v[a^]n"j[e^]l*[imac]*z[i^]ng)]. [F. ['e]vang['e]lisre, LL. evangelizare, fr. Gr. e'yaggeli`zesqai.]
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To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.
His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations.
--Milton. Hence: [metaphorical] To preach and attempt to convert (people) to one's firmly held belief.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French evangeliser "to spread or preach the Gospel," and directly from Church Latin evangelizare, from Greek euangelizesthai (see evangelist). Related: Evangelized; evangelizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to. 2 To preach the Quran and sunnah to non-Muslims; to do dawah 3 To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others
WordNet
v. preach the gospel (to) [syn: evangelise]
convert to Christianity; "The missionaries evangelized the Pacific Islanders" [syn: evangelise]
Usage examples of "evangelize".
Therefore was it near to the heart of the holy prelate to solemnize this solemn day, which the Lord had appointed a day of joyfulness to the dwellers on earth and the dwellers in heaven, on the fair and spacious plain called Breagh, and there, by evangelizing the kingdom of God, and baptizing the people of his conversion, to gather together the elect race unto Christ.
Elliott, a graduate nurse, and deaconess, will join the staff shortly, and a few others will be sent when secured, in order that the force may be sufficient to evangelize the million people in north Formosa.
Partly for this reason the burden of evangelizing Melanesia was very heavily shared by Polynesians: pastors from the Cook Islands and Samoa in particular came forward from the training institutes established by the L.
As a religious solemnity, however, it had not at all corresponded with the horrible descriptions of Polynesian worship which we have received in some published narratives, and especially in those accounts of the evangelized islands with which the missionaries have favoured us.
These ideas were not known to Moses, and the reason is very obvious: it was not till four centuries afterwards that Zoroaster first evangelized them in Asia.
The faith had not wanted men to be so widespread they couldn’t be evangelized and controlled.
Saint Alban was the first English martyr, who evangelized the British Isles.
It was only the monks of Hibernia in their monasteries who wrote and read, read and wrote, and illuminated, and then jumped into little boats made of animal hide and navigated toward these lands and evangelized them as if you people were infidels, you understand?
His religion was not one that evangelized, because its requirements for membership were biologically stringent.
And I am blessed to preach the gospel, evangelizing, for even here, there are the undecided.
Ben-Judah taught, “but the stench of the other side evangelizing for evil has offended him and kindled his wrath.
What need would there be for evangelizing during the Tribulation if no one could come to Christ?
I have never been seen evangelizing my ideas, either in temples or in public meetings.