different between priest vs evangelist

English

Etymology

From Middle English prest, preest, from Old English pr?ost (“priest”), from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (presbúteros), from ??????? (présbus, “elder, older”). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French prestre, also from Latin presbyter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?st/, [?p??i?st]
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

priest (plural priests, feminine priestess)

1. a religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple

3. a blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish
4. (Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood

Coordinate terms

• imam, guru, kohen (cohen), rabbi, bhikkhu, godi

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

priest (third-person singular simple present priests, present participle priesting, simple past and past participle priested)

1. (transitive) To ordain as a priest.
   • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:

     If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

See also

References

• “Lesson 7: Duties of the Priest”, in Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood, Part A?^[1], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000, page 48
• Smart, Alastair Fish Welfare at Harvest: Killing Me Softly
• Comparison of Common Slaughter Methods for Farmed Finfish Seafood innovations.

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Sprite, esprit, pierst, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe, tripes

German

Verb

priest

1. second-person singular/plural preterite of preisen

Middle English

Noun

priest

1. Alternative form of prest (“priest”)

English

Etymology

From Old French evangeliste, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek ???????????? (euangelist?s, “bringer of good news”), from ?????????????? (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from ????????? (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ????????? (angéllein, “to announce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vænd??l?st/

Noun

evangelist (plural evangelists)

1. (Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
2. (biblical) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
3. (primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
4. (Mormon Church) A patriarch.
5. A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
   • 1992, J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History, ?ISBN, p. 94.

     Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.

   • 1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", ?ISBN, p. 10.

     Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.

   • 1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, ?ISBN, p. 149.

     The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.

6. (computing) A person hired to promote a particular technology.

Synonyms

• (preacher): gospeler

Derived terms

• televangelist
• technology evangelist
• evangelism marketing

Related terms

• angel
• angelic
• evangel
• evangelism
• evangelize

Translations

See also

• missionary
• Christer

Further reading

• evangelist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evangelist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• gavestinel

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ewangeliste, from Old French evangeliste, from Latin ?vangelista, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (euangelist?s). Equivalent to evangelie +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.v??.?e??l?st/
• Hyphenation: evan?ge?list
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

evangelist m (plural evangelisten, diminutive evangelistje n)

1. (Christianity) An evangelist, , an author of one of the gospels.
2. (Protestantism) A Christian missionary.
3. (Protestantism) A preacher in an evangelical church.

Swedish

Noun

evangelist c

1. evangelist; a preacher of the gospel
2. evangelist; a writer of a gospel

Declension