gospeller
Britishnoun
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a person who reads or chants the Gospel in a religious service
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a person who professes to preach a gospel held exclusively by him and others of a like mind
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"Whether I be a scholar or not, I'll warrant no honest gospeller wrote on those yellow musty leaves, which be two hundred years old, if they be a day."
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Are you someone in particular or are you simply a hot gospeller of the prophet Nietzsche?
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The young gospeller took up his task void of all vain conceit; but humility, simplicity, and honesty alone could not prevail over the quick-witted witch when she was bent on entangling him.
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In one prescription we find the names of two heathen idols, Tiecon and Leleloth, combined with a later Christian interpolation of the names of the four gospellers.
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The 24th Canon directs that "In all cathedral and collegiate churches the Holy Communion shall be administered, . . . the principal minister using a decent cope, and being assisted with the gospeller and epistoler."
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