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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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... metaphorical fights 900 For reform and whatever they call human rights, Both singing and striking in front of the war, And hitting his foes with the mallet of Thor; Anne haec, one exclaims, on beholding his knocks, Vestis filii tui, O leather-clad Fox? Can that be thy son, in the battle's mid din, Preaching brotherly love and then driving it in To the brain of the tough old Goliath of sin, With the smoothest of pebbles from Castaly's spring Impressed on his hard moral sense with ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... reverently ponders and commends it, glimpses of rural landscapes, and of open skies—God's beautiful world, still lovely, even though sin has marred it. Like the Sermon on the Mount, Bunyan's page has the traits of field-preaching. And it was so, also, in his references to the inner world of his own heart. He wrote not from the dried specimens of earlier collectors—from the shrivelled and rustling leaves of some old herbary—from the philosophy and metaphysical analysis of other ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... Amy were silent. The keen common sense of the mill girl had struck home, and again Amy realized that her vocation was not that of "preaching." ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... that, between the dying Belton and the preaching Belford, he shan't be his own man these three days: and says that thou addest to the unhappy fellow's weakness, instead of giving him courage to help him ...

— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson

... prepare, for it took most of a week to memorize the sermon, and it was joyless work to deliver it, for there was none of the living power that attends a man's God-given message and witness. His conscience was not yet enlightened enough to see that he was acting a false part in preaching another's sermon as his own; nor had he the spiritual insight to perceive that it is not God's way to set up a man to preach who knows not enough of either His word or the life of the Spirit within him, to prepare his own discourse. How few even among preachers feel preaching to be ...

— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

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