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verb

Preach v. t.

To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue. "That Cristes gospel truly wolde preche." "The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek."

To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching. "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation."

To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. (R.) "As ye are preached."

To advise or recommend earnestly. "My master preaches patience to him."

To preach down, to oppress, or humiliate by preaching.

To preach up, to exalt by preaching; to preach in support of; as, to preach up equality.

Preach v. i. (past & past part. preached; pres. part. preaching)

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. "How shall they preach, except they be sent?" "From that time Jesus began to preach."

To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

noun

Preaching n. The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice.

Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place.

Preaching friars. See Dominican.

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Etymology of 'Preaching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Preaching" Quotes from Famous Books

... he, brought up in an atmosphere like this?" But she happened to raise her eyes at the moment, and to see the actual Carnaby of the moment, not the Carnaby her gloomy imagination was evoking from the future with the "petty hoard of maxims preaching down" his heart. He had contrived to get hold of the Marie Antoinette pearls without his grandmother's knowledge and to hang them around his neck; he had poised the Montmorency tiara on his own sleek head; he had forced a heavy bracelet by way of collar round Rupert's ...

— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... supposed to unite all who, like the author, are opposed to the plunge into what is called Home Rule. But its propagandist activities in Ireland are confined to preaching the doctrine of the status quo, and preaching it only to its own side. From the beginning the party has been intimately connected with the landlord class; yet even upon the land question it has thrown but ...

— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett

... meet him and witness his manner both of acting and of preaching, and yesterday I was fortunate enough to encounter him. I shall give you, as exactly as I can, what took place; it will show you better than many letters could do what, in one direction, are our present ...

— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware

... three possible reasons for our dislike of things as they are, the first two are perhaps contained within the third. But, to whatever our dislike is due, we have it—Oh! we have it! With the possible exception of Hogarth in his non-preaching pictures, and Constable in his sketches of the sky,—I speak of dead men only,—have we produced any painter of reality like Manet or Millet, any writer like Flaubert or Maupassant, like Turgenev, or Tchekov. We are, I think, too deeply civilised, so deeply civilised ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... seems impertinent to make such suggestions to you, who have doubtless a full fund of consolation; but I remember, when a child, going to hear the preaching of a monk who was famous for his eloquence. He said that his text was from the Scriptures—it has been in my mind all to-day—'There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.' The ...

— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

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