[f. EVANGELIST + -SHIP.] The office, position or dignity of an evangelist.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 578. A full performance of his office of the Evangelistship.
1636. Prynne, Unbish. Tim. (1661), 2. Can we … conjecture, that Timothy would … descend from an Evangelistship to a Bishoprick?
