evangelize
verb(British English also evangelise)
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they evangelize | |
| he / she / it evangelizes | |
| past simple evangelized | |
| past participle evangelized | |
| -ing form evangelizing |
- evangelize (somebody/something)
to try to persuade people to become Christians 传播福音；使皈依基督教 The area was originally evangelized by French missionaries. 该地区最初是由法国传教士传教的。 The Church has a mission to evangelize and spread the faith. 教会的使命是传福音和传播信仰。
Word Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin evangelizare, from Greek euangelizesthai, from euangelos ‘bringing good news’, from eu- ‘well’ + angelein ‘announce’.