Pulpit
['pʊlpɪt]
Definition
(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Desk, sacred desk.
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Definition
n. a platform for speaking from: an elevated or enclosed place in a church where the sermon is delivered: a desk.—adj. belonging to the pulpit.—ns. Pulpiteer′ Pul′piter one who speaks from a pulpit: a preacher.—adj. Pul′pitish.—The pulpit preachers or preaching collectively.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pulpit, denotes sorrow and vexation. To dream that you are in a pulpit, foretells sickness, and unsatisfactory results in business or trades of any character.
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Examples
- Even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Bits of old wood carvings from the pulpit, and panels from the chancel, and images from the organ-loft, said the clerk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was a deacon in the church which had been defiled by the occupation of Union troops, and by a Union chaplain filling the pulpit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Army chaplains were authorized to occupy the pulpit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One of them that I visited was in a Baptist church, the man with the wheel being in the pulpit, and the gamblers in the pews. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She sits in the pew near the pulpit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One scarcely sees a clergyman out of his pulpit. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- One may hear Manich?an doctrines from many Christian pulpits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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