adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an evangelical manner.
1. As the Gospel requires; in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel; from the point of view of the Gospel.
1624. Gee, Foot out of Snare, 14. The least sin, legally considered, is damnable; though euangelically, the greatest of all is pardonable.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Nehemiah i. 9 (1657), II. 45. And keep my Commandments] Evangelically keep them: for with a legal obedience none can.
1673. Ladies Call., I. v. 81. Socrates has excellently (I had almost said Evangelically) defined, the best way of worshipping God, to be the doing what he commands.
1772. J. Fletcher, Logica Genev., 63. Agreeably to that evangelically-legal proposition.
2. According to the principles of those called Evangelicals.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 639/2. When our euaungelical englishe heretiques fall in acquaintaunce … with some of our marchauntes factours, they mylke them so euaungelically, that [etc.].
1890. Dict. Nat. Biog., XXI. 14/2. His parents were … by no means ‘evangelically’ religious.
