Preaching

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preach \Preach\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Preached}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Preaching}.] [OE. prechen, OF. preechier, F. pr[^e]cher, fr.
     L. praedicare to cry in public, to proclaim; prae before +
     dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from
     (assumed) LL. praedictare. See {Diction}, and cf.
     {Predicate}, {Predict}.]


     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.
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              How shall they preach, except they be sent? --Rom.
                                                    x. 15.
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              From that time Jesus began to preach. --Matt. iv.
                                                    17.
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     2. To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse
        in the manner of a preacher.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preaching \Preach"ing\ (pr[=e]ch"[i^]ng), n.
     The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of
     sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse;
     serious, earnest advice. --Milner.
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     {Preaching cross}, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit,
        erected out of doors to designate a preaching place.
  
     {Preaching friars}. See {Dominican}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preaching
       n 1: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a
            church service) [syn: {sermon}, {discourse}]
       2: a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him" [syn:
           {sermon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "preaching":
     allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, conning,
     discourse, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, homily, hortation,
     inducement, jawboning, lecture, lobbying, persuasion, preach,
     preachification, preachment, prelection, religious discourse,
     sales talk, salesmanship, selling, sermon, sermonette, sermonizing,
     snow job, soft soap, solicitation, suasion, sweet talk, travelogue,
     wheedling, working on