Obs. or arch. Also 6 evangelion. [L. ēvangelium, a. Gr. εὐαγγέλιον: see EVANGELY.] The GOSPEL (in various senses); a proclamation of the ‘glad tidings’ of the Gospel.
1541. Coverdale, trans. Bullinger’s Old Faith (1581), iii. 18. This is the first promise, and the first sure Euangelion.
1549. Crowley, Last Trump., A viij. If thy prince do commaunde the ought: Agaynst Gods Euangelion, Then pray for hym still in thy thought.
1692–1732. Coles, Evangelium.
a. 1850. Marg. Fuller, Life without & Life within (1860), 18. If we can find out how much was given him, we are told, in a pure evangelium to judge thereby how much shall be required.
