Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gospeller"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gospeler \Gos"pel*er\, n. [AS. godspellere.] [Written also
{gospeller}.]
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. [Obs.] --Latimer.

The persecution was carried on against the gospelers
with much fierceness by those of the Roman
persuasion. --Strype.

3. A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar
during the communion service.

The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the
epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the
Bishop of Sydney. --Pall Mall
Gazette.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

gospeller
n : a preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: {evangelist}, {revivalist},
{gospeler}]


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