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.