Preacher
['priːtʃə] or ['pritʃɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
(n.) One who inculcates anything with earnestness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a preacher, denotes that your ways are not above reproach, and your affairs will not move evenly. To dream that you are a preacher, foretells for you losses in business, and distasteful amusements will jar upon you. To hear preaching, implies that you will undergo misfortune. To argue with a preacher, you will lose in some contest. To see one walk away from you, denotes that your affairs will move with new energy. If he looks sorrowful, reproaches will fall heavily upon you. To see a long-haired preacher, denotes that you are shortly to have disputes with overbearing and egotistical people.
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Examples
- The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher: neither were softened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a still narrower sense the truth of the Preacher's declaration is apparent:-- In an address before the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1885, the late Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I never listened to a distinguished preacher in my life without a sort of envy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have the license and here is the preacher. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- YOU--YOU are the Sunday school teacher--YOU--you preacher. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why, he's been called a preacher in them parts he came from. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Didn't you just warrant him for a preacher? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In another moment he was gone, and the terror-stricken preacher with him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the cities you will see a dozen civilians for every soldier, and as many for every priest or preacher. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I tell him he is undervaluing the God who made him, and made him a most excellent preacher. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But in one sense the Preacher's words are ever profoundly true. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That was very brutal, I think, said Dorothea Well, now, it seemed rather black to me, I confess, in a Methodist preacher, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable there as an itinerant preacher. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He is a real Gospel preacher, is Mr. Tyke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Its only organization was an organization of preachers, and its chief function was the sermon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is the work of publicists and educators, scientists, preachers and artists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They are known to the largest part only as preachers. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mr. Hale was one of the most delightful preachers she had ever heard, and a perfect model of a parish priest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They have many of them become very learned, ingenious, and respectable men; but they have in general ceased to be very popular preachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Islam to this day has learned doctors, teachers, and preachers; but it has no priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You read glowing articles in magazines about preachers who devote their time to housing reforms, milk supplies, the purging of the civil service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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