a. [f. EVANGELIST + -IC.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Four Evangelists.
1845. W. Bromet, in Archæol., XXXI. 498. At the angles [of an Incised Slab] are the evangelistic symbols.
1850. Neale, Med. Hymns, 108. These are they, the symbols mystic Of the forms Evangelistic.
1869. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xxii. 7–8. The evangelistic narrative of the ridicule endured by the Crucified One.
2. Of or pertaining to preachers of the Gospel.
1860. Ellicott, Life our Lord, vii. 281. The fulfilment of type and shadow of the hopes of patriarchs … must be declared by the whole Evangelistic company.
1886. Q. Rev., CLXIII. 122. Apparatus, necessary for their [missionaries’] educational and evangelistic labours.
3. Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
1848. H. Miller, First Impr., viii. (1857), 129. The Voluntary controversy united Evangelistic Dissent and Roman Catholicism by the bonds of a common cause.
