Preach
[priːtʃ] or [pritʃ]
Definition
(verb.) speak, plead, or argue in favor of; 'The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house'.
(verb.) deliver a sermon; 'The minister is not preaching this Sunday'.
Edited by Edith--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
(v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
(v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
(v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.
(v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
(v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
(v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
(v.) A religious discourse.
Typed by Duane
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Proclaim (as in a religious discourse), declare, publish.[2]. Inculcate, teach.
v. n. Deliver sermons, discourse on religious subjects.
Editor: Ozzie
Definition
v.i. to pronounce a public discourse on sacred subjects: to discourse earnestly: to give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.—v.t. to publish in religious discourses: to deliver as a sermon: to teach publicly.—n. (coll.) a sermon.—ns. Preach′er one who discourses publicly on religious matter: a minister or clergyman; Preach′ership.—v.i. Preach′ify to preach tediously: to weary with lengthy advice.—ns. Preach′ing the act of preaching: a public religious discourse: a sermon; Preach′ing-cross a cross in an open place at which monks &c. preached.—n.pl. Preach′ing-frī′ars the Dominicans.—n. Preach′ment a sermon in contempt: a discourse affectedly solemn.—adj. Preach′y given to tedious moralising.—Preach down and up to decry or the opposite.
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Examples
- I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But I should like to see Mr. Farebrother and hear him preach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But all men cannot preach or teach; doctrine is but one of many of the functions of life that are fundamentally righteous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I wish it had been smashed up when its day was over, not left to preach the beloved past to us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I won't preach any more, and I'd like to hear the news immensely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sick people can't bear so much praying and preaching. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This other gentleman is in the preaching line, I think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But it lies not in the preaching of a doctrine or the insistence on some particular change in conduct. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ye have been present neither at the prayer nor preaching, ma'am, if I have observed aright. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He can do it by thy silence as well as by thy preaching; thy laying aside as well as thy continuance in thy work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is gravely and well preached, O daughter of Sirach! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It preached Romanism; it persuaded to conversion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He preached, unmolested by the Moslems, be it noted, in Egypt and Palestine, though the Fifth Crusade was then in progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In Capernaum he had preached in the synagogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I sent them away, after arresting a rascal amongst them, whom I hope to transport--a fellow who preaches at the chapel yonder sometimes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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