gospelize, v.
(ˈgɒspəlaɪz)
Also 7–8 gospellize.
[f. gospel n. + -ize.]
† 1. trans. To impart the spirit of the gospel to; to modify according to the spirit of the gospel.
| 1643 Milton Divorce viii. (1851) 39 And this command thus Gospelliz'd to us hath the same force with that wheron Ezra grounded the pious necessity of divorcing. 1658 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14, xi. §2. ii. 269, I had thought, Christ had baptized the Law, and Gospeliz'd it. |
2. To preach the gospel to: to convert to Christianity; = evangelize 3. Now rare.
| 1646 Trapp Comm. John iii. 10 The poor are Gospellized; not only receive it, but are changed by it. 1704 Elegy Author True born Eng. xxi. 6 Tho' most suppose his Notions were but wild, To fetch the Jew to Gospellize his Child. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 100 Where he fulfill'd his foresaid Apostolical Purposes of Gospelizing the Poor, and Disciplining the Proud and Slothful. 1766 Dr. Chauncy in C. Beatty Two Months' Tour (1768) 102 Mr. Thomas Mayhew..began..the work of gospelizing the infidel natives. 1884 Amer. Missionary Dec. 392 These two societies are..one in the noble aim of gospelizing the land. |
Hence ˈgospelized ppl. a., (nonce-use) outwardly modified by the gospel. Also ˈgospelizer, one who ‘gospelizes’ (Stand. Dict.).
| 1849 Stovel Canne's Necess. Introd. 37 Popery, therefore,..is evangelical infidelity; a gospelized method of living without God and without hope in the world. Ibid. 75 note, A gospelized treason against the Lord and his Anointed. |