| Evangelical 1. (a.) Seeking the conversion of others; relating to the four Christian Gospels. 2. (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. 3. (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminently orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. 4. (n.) One of evangelical principles. Thesaurus Entries Bohemian, Evangelical, Protestant, Reformationist, Reformed believer, Zwinglian, apostate, beatnik, demurrer, deviant, dissentient, dissident, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misbeliever, misfit, non-Catholic, nonconformist, nonjuror, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, original, protestant, protester, recusant, schismatic, sectarian, sectary, separatist, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie |