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ˈgospel-like, a. and adv. A. adj. †a. Of persons: Devoted to the principles of the Gospel; cf. evangelical a. 2 a. Obs. b. Such as is contained in, or comes up to the standard of, the Gospel.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Thess. Ded., That Gospellike truth & liberty is almost vtterly chaunged in to hellishe iniquitie. 1553? Bale tr. Bonner's Pref. Gardiner's De vera Obed. B iv b, No man coulde beleve..yt this good and godly & right gospellike Prince shoulde be falsely betrayed to all the rest of Monarches and Princes. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxviii. §5 They have by their Religious and Gospel-like behaviour purged themselves of that suspition of Poperie. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 189 See..whether is the more Euangelicall, and Gospell-like. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 423 Sometimes..a soldiers cloak, slashed hose, do cover a Gospel like mind. B. adv. Agreeably to the doctrines of the Gospel.
1576J. Woolton Chr. Man. M 7, To lyue neglygently, and carnally, or not gospell lyke. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 426 It was very Gospel-like done. |