Word Finder - evangelized

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To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.

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To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.

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To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.

John Oxtoby, who evangelized Filey and became known as "Praying, Johnny," Viscount Goderich (afterwards Earl of Ripon) Duke of Wellington.

He died in 745, and was succeeded by Joseph, who evangelized Phrygia and died near Antioch of Pisidia in 775.

Benedictines - Wilfrid, Willibrord, Swithbert, Willehad - who evangelized Friesland and Holland; and another, Winfrid or Boniface, who, with his fellow-monks Willibald and others,.

The Bohemian Brethren evangelized Little Poland, but ultimately coalesced with the Calvinists at the synod of Kozminek (August 1555).

The Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England (founded in 1649) bore the expense of printing both the New Testament and the Bible as a whole (Cambridge, Mass., 1663 - the earliest Bible printed in.America), which John Eliot, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, translated into "the language of the Massachusetts Indians," whom he evangelized.

Most probably it was introduced by the Irish missionaries who evangelized the north of England, though Welsh influence is scarcely impossible.

The men for this work were now ready, and the sons of the newly evangelized English Churches were ready to go forth.

About the same time, and largely owing to the exertions of Olaf, Iceland, Greenland and the Orkney and Shetland islands were also evangelized.

Others of the same order evangelized Paraguay in 1582, while the Huguenots sent forth under a French knight of Malta a body of devoted men to attempt the formation of a Christian colony at Rio Janeiro.

The Goths and the Vandals who poured down upon the Roman Empire were evangelized so silently and rapidly that only a fact here and there relating to their conversion has been preserved.

About the same time Rurutu in the Austral Islands and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands were evangelized, also by natives, and Christianity spread from island to island.

In 1846 a teacher was placed on Niue, Savage Island, and in ten years it was evangelized.

The London Mission has also largely evangelized the Matabele.

On his way a west wind drove him to Friesland, where he evangelized the natives and prepared the way for Willibrord.

Hence the aboriginal tribes of the South were evangelized.

Later in the same year William Wickenden of Providence evangelized and administered the ordinances at Flushing, but was heavily fined and banished.

In the second half of the 9th century the monks of Corvey, according to Helmold's Chronica Slavorum, evangelized the island of Riigen, where they built a church in honour of St Vitus.

It was finally evangelized from quite another quarter, by Irish missionaries brought by King Oswald from Columbas monastery of lona.

He no doubt talked about the inevitable end of sin and where it leads when he first evangelized them.