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noun

Pulpit n.

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. "I stand like a clerk in my pulpit."

The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching. "I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause."

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

adjective

Pulpit adj. Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

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Etymology of 'Pulpit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pulpit" Quotes from Famous Books

... here held up as an example to the world. I could produce an instance of a man, or at least a thing in the garb of a man, the opprobrium and scorn of human nature, dressed up on a Sunday in the robes of priesthood, mounted in the pulpit and defiling the very show of religion, by pretending to read and preach lessons of holiness and godliness to those who, the night before, had witnessed him in a state of beastly intoxication, at a common village alehouse, not only degrading the character of a ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... pleasure with the carriages up to their axles in sand. There are three old royalist buildings still standing—viz., the Episcopal church, the Court-house, and the Exchange. The first reminds one warmly of the dear old parish church in England, with its heavy oak pulpit and the square family pews, and it sobers the mind as it leads the memory to those days when, if the church was not full of activity, it was not full of strife—when parishioners were not brought to loggerheads as to the colour of the preacher's gown—when there ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

... jacket and leather gaiters, or whose costume is not more elaborate than that of these poor people. A friend of mine told me that he has often, sitting hammer in hand on the roof of a cottage nailing on shingles, preached the gospel to a congregation who were as attentive as if he were in a high pulpit, and were habited in ...

— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston

... the danger; she was too much charmed to find herself alone and exploring. A sense of importance filled her, and a good deal of curiosity. She looked at the names in some of the mouldy hymn books lying in the pews, and mounted the pulpit to see how the church looked from there. Then she went into the vestry, and coming out of it she found herself at the entrance to a low dark place which she thought must be a family vault. It was so low and dark she could at first see nothing ...

— Paul the Courageous • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... introduce order and civilisation; he proclaimed to us that some eloquent Frenchmen had made a discovery, that all men are equal—though this was written long ago in Holy Writ and every parish priest prates of it from the pulpit. The doctrine was ancient, the question was of its application. But at that time such general blindness prevailed that they did not believe the oldest things in the world if they did not read of them in a French newspaper. The Cup-Bearer's son, ...

— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

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