Word Meanings - PULPITRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. " Mere pulpitry." Milton.
Related words: (words related to PULPITRY)
- 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.