Word Meanings - UNPREACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To undo or overthrow by preaching. De Foe.

OVERTHROW
1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks
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.
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
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.
PREACHMAN
A preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell.
PREACHING
The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate
OUTPREACH
To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
UNPREACH
To undo or overthrow by preaching. De Foe.