gospeler

plural gospelers · alternative gospeller

1. A person who preaches from the Gospels
2. entertainmentA singer of gospel music
3. EarlyModernobsoleteA Protestant or evangelical Christian.

   If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kinde of supersticion to feede vpon. If thou be a gospeller, no man shall aske why thou comest not to churche.

   1549, William Thomas, The historie of Italie […], page 85

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   You know I have conferred with many, and I ensure you, I never found man, so far as I do remembre, neyther old nor new Gospeller or Papist, of what judgment soever he was, in this thing to be a contrary opinion.

   1554 April 8, Nicholas Ridley, “Dr. Ridley late Bishop of London to West, formerly his Steward […]”, in John Strype, editor, Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer […], published 1694, page 202

   He for some time kept School at Reading in Barkshire, but after a time being found to be a Gospeller he was forced to fly thence, and repairing to his own Mother, who was a Papist.

   1682, England’s Remembrancer […], London: E. Smith, page 152