angelo-, angel- +
(Greek: messenger, divine messenger)
angelomachy
A war or conflict between angels.
angelophany
The actual appearance of an angel to a human.
Angelus, angelus
1. A roman Catholic prayer commemorating the Incarnation, and imploring the intercession of the Mother of God.
2. The Angelus bell or the first words of the prayer from the Gospel Angelus domini, "angel of the Lord".
3. A devotional prayer used to commemorate the Annunciation or the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ.
Angelus bell
A signal to say the Angelus, rung at morning, noon, and evening as a call to recite the devotional prayer to commemorate the Annunciation or as indicated in the Bible, the archangel Gabriel's visit to the Virgin Mary to announce that she had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus Christ (Luke 1:26-38).
evangel, Evangel 1
1. The message of redemption through Jesus Christ; the Christian gospel.
2. One of the four Gospels o the New Testament.
3. Any good news or glad tidings.
4. Etymology: from Old French evangile, from Late Latin evangelium which came from Greek euangelion "good news"; from eu-, "good" + angellein, "announce".
evangel 2
1. An evangelist.
2. Etymology: from Greek euangelos from eu-, "good" + angelos, "messenger".
evangelical
1. In or agreeing with the four Gospels or the teachings of the New Testament in the Bible.
2. Denoting the adherents of a school of Protestant theology stressing the divine inspiration, authority, and sufficiency of the Scriptures, the fallen state of man, salvation by faith in the redeeming work of Christ, and spiritual regeneration, and denying in whole or in part the efficacy of the sacraments and the authority of the church.
3. In the U.S., loosely, orthodox; Trinitarian in belief.
4. Zealous or fervent: evangelical preaching.
5. A reference to the work of an evangelist; evangelistic: evangelical labors.
6. A member of an evangelical chkurch, or of an evangelical party within a church, as of the Low Church party in Anglicanism.
evangelicalness
A reference to being evangelical or the teachings and authority of the Scriptures; especially, of the New Testament, in opposition to the institutional authority of the church itself, and emphasizing the tenet that salvation is achieved by personal conversion to faith in the atonement of Christ.
evangelicism
Evangelical principles; evangelism.
evangelism
1. The zealous preaching or spreading of the gospel, "good news".
2. The work of an evangelist.
evangelist, Evangelist
1. Usually capitalized, one of the four writers of the New Testament Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
2. An itinerant (traveling from place to place) or a missionary preacher; a revivalist or a promoter, organizer, or preacher at a religious revival meeting, especially one for evangelical Christians.
3. In the Mormon Church, a patriarch.
evangelistic
1. Referring to an evangelist.
2 Seeking or suited to evangelize.
evangelization
Generally applied to any form of preaching by an evangelist aimed at converting people to Christianity by believing in Christ as their savior.
evangelize
1. To preach the gospel to.
2. To convert to Christianity.
2. To preach as an evangelist.
protevangelion, protevangel, protevangelium
The first announcement of a Savior, as made in the Garden of Eden immediately after the Fall.
More fully, "Protevangelium of James". The apocryphal History of James Concerning the Birth of Mary.
—As presented in
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language,
2nd Ed., Unabridged; G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers;
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; 1952.