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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels;
- Example: "evangelical Christianity"
- Example: "an ultraconservative evangelical message"

2. of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament;

3. marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause;
[syn: evangelical, evangelistic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a. 1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. [1913 Webster] 2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. [1913 Webster] 3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; pre["e]minently 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 religious bodies not regarded as orthodox. [1913 Webster] 4. Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause. [PJC] 5. Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8. [PJC] Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. Evangelical Union, a religious sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, n. One of evangelical principles. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

evangelical adj 1: relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message" 2: of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament 3: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelical, evangelistic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "evangelical": Biblical, Christian, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, Sabbatarian, accepted, apocalyptic, apostolic, approved, authentic, authoritative, bigoted, canonical, conventional, correct, creedbound, customary, dogmatic, evangelic, evangelistic, faithful, firm, fundamentalist, gospel, hidebound, hyperorthodox, inspired, literal, literalist, literalistic, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, precisianist, precisianistic, proper, prophetic, purist, puristic, puritanical, received, revealed, revelational, right, scriptural, sound, standard, staunch, straitlaced, strict, textual, textuary, theopneustic, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true-blue