Middle English Dictionary Entry
gospellē̆r(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gospellē̆r(e n. Also gospeler(e, gospellour, gosspel(l)er & godspeller(e, goddspeller, godsspeller, (early) godspællere. |
| Etymology | OE godspellere |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One of the four Gospel writers or Evangelists; holi ~, the four gospelleres; (b) a statue of one of the Evangelists; (c) as applied to Old Testament persons: a bringer of good news; the prophet Isaiah.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)15/2 : Se godspellere Lucas sæigð on þyssen godspelle þæt se Hælend com in-to sumen cæstele.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)12/21 : Iohannes þe Godspællere hit sette on Cristes bec.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)34/23 : Þa tealde þe godspellere Lucas from Criste sylfum upweard to Adame.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)96/20 : Sanctus Matheus wrat, þe godspellere, þis dæȝþerlice godspel.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)108/29 : Ure Drihten..þurh his halȝæn godspellere us munæð.
- a1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)97 : Matheus..wes cachepol þene he iwende to godspellere.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)41/6 : Hier of berþ ȝewitnesse sanctus Iohannes ðe godspellere.
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6:Morton)94 : Godspellere [Nero: sein Johan ewangeliste].
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)362/1 : Seint Marc, þe holie godspellare [Corp-C: gospellar] wide wende in londe.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)12/13 : Þis article zette sayn Ion þe godspellere.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)13/26 : Þis article zette seynt Matheu þe godsspellere.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.339 : Þre gospellours that telleþ þe doynge of Crist..leveþ untolde, [etc.].
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.409 : Mark þe gospellour [vr. gospeler]..deide at Alexandria.
- c1390(c1350) NHom.(2) PSanct.(Vrn)310/156 : Þis ilke same Matheu here was þe furste gospellere.
- c1390 NHom.Magd.(Vrn(1))1 : Seint Luc, þe goode gospelere, Telleþ vs.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12581 : Als lucas vs sais, þe gospelere [Göt: godspeller; Frf: gospeler].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13441 : Þat ilk Iohn..O gosspellere [Göt: Of godspellers] he was þe ferth.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21120 : First he [Matthew] was a puplican, And siþen o gods spellers [Göt: of godspellers; Trin-C: of gospellours] an.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21237 : Marc was gospellere [Göt: goddspeller] wit won.
- a1400 Ancr.Recl.(Pep 2498)12/8 : Alle þe soules þat ben forþ faren in þe bileeue of þe foure godspellers.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) Prol.John(1) (Roy 1.C.8)234 : He [John] wroot the gospel aftir alle the gospeleris.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6887 : Men may in the gospel rede Of seynt Mathew, the gospelere.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Letab.(Hrl 2255)221 : Foure Gospeleerys clareffyed our sight.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.PPeace (Hrl 2255)63 : Gabriel cam, the gospeleer seith the same, Brouht gladdest tydynges þat evir was of pees.
- a1450 Ch.Feasts (Roy 18.A.10)320 : Þe godspelleres with benysouns, To fest þei bid euery freende.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)10823 : Radeth luk the gospeler, Wher the text ys pleyn & cler.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Expos.PNoster (LdMisc 683)42 : I speke..Nat of the foure hevenly Gospelerys.
b
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1457 : And þe foure Gospellers [Cmb: Gospellorus] Standand on þe pelers.
c
- (c1395) WBible(2) Prol.Is.(Roy 1.C.8)225 : As seynt Jerom seith..Isaye is worthi to be seid not oneli a profete, but more, a gospellere [L non tam propheta dicendus sit quam euangelista], for he declarith so opynli the mysteries of Crist.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.41.27 : Y schal ȝyue a gospellere [L evangelistam] to Jerusalem.
2.
(a) A book containing the Gospels or portions of the Gospels; (b) the text or content of one of the Gospels.
Associated quotations
a
- (1434) Invent.Scarborough in Archaeol.5166 : Et unum librum vocatum Gospellar'.
- 1618(1440) Invent.Cumberworth in Peacock EChurch Furniture [OD col.] : Item, a gospeler and a epistolere a yere with a plate on them of Coper and gilt.
- (c1450) Doc.in Bentley Excerpta Hist.417 : Gospeler: The sign of a boke with a crosse on your forehede with your thombe.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.85 : Inprimis, ij missals or masbokes, one gospelar, viij Antiphonars.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum6 : A Gospeler of velym writtyn and bound in the same.
- (1472) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum371 : It' j gospeler, in the ijde lef' Et fluctuu'.
b
- a1450(c1405) Purvey Determ.(Trin-C B.14.50)178/297 : Not-wiþstanding þat sche [Queen Anne] was an alien borne sche hadde on Engliche al þe foure Gospeleris wiþ þe doctoris vpon hem.