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Preach   /pritʃ/   Listen
verb
Preach  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching. "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation."
3.
To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
4.
To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. (R.) "As ye are preached."
5.
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)  
1.
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."
2.
To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.



noun
Preach  n.  A religious discourse. (Obs.)






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"Preach" Quotes from Famous Books



... of age his father removed to Hessle. About this time John heard that flaming evangelist, the Rev. William Clowes, preach near the 'old pump' at Hessle, and he retired from the service with good resolutions in his breast, and sought a place of prayer. Soon after he heard the famous John Oxtoby preach, and he says, 'I was truly converted under his sermon, and for sometime I enjoyed a clear sense ...
— The Hero of the Humber - or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe • Henry Woodcock

... house having been provided for the preacher, and no one to be obtained but at a very inconvenient distance, I was in this respect very inconveniently situated. Travelling nine miles to the scene of my official duties, it was frequently my hap to preach in a very uncomfortable condition, when, indeed, the wet would be pouring from my arms on the Bible before me, and oozing over my shoes when the foot was stirred on the pulpit floor. But, by and by, the Duke of Buccleuch built a dwelling-house for me, the ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... disciples were chosen by Him in order that they might disperse throughout the whole world, and preach His faith everywhere, according to Matt. 28:19, "Going . . . teach ye all nations." Now it was not fitting that they who were being sent to teach others should need to be taught by others, either as to how they should speak to other people, or as to how they were to understand those ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... Betty Bishop, both deserters from the Episcopal church, chanced to be seated together. Rosalind's urgent invitation to come and hear our president preach, had brought Celia, and it was, of course, for old friendship's sake that Miss ...
— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard

... me: "The priests wield an immense, an incalculable power. All are on the same path, all hammer away at the one point. It is the persistency, the organisation, that tells. In some cases they have been known to preach for a year and a half at a stretch on political subjects. What is going to ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)


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