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Word Meanings - PULPITRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. " Mere pulpitry." Milton.

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  • TEACHER
    1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
  • TEACHABLENESS
    Willingness to be taught.
  • PULPITED
    Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
  • PULPITER
    A preacher.
  • TEACH
    1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to
  • PULPITISH
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.
  • TEACHE
    One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure. (more info) Works)
  • PULPITICAL
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. Chesterfield.
  • PREACH
    cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
  • PREACHMENT
    A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
  • PREACHIFY
    To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
  • PREACHERSHIP
    The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • PREACHER
    1. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14. 2. One who inculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird , a toucan.
  • PULPITRY
    The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. " Mere pulpitry." Milton.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • TEACHABLE
    Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile. We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. I. Watts.
  • PREACHMAN
    A preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell.
  • TEACHLESS
    Not teachable. Shelley.
  • PULPITEER
    One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.
  • OUTPREACH
    To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
  • SCHOOL-TEACHER
    One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • FORETEACH
    To teach beforehand.

 

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