preach

[preach]

To preach is to deliver a sermon or an otherwise powerful message. You may go to church to hear the minister preach, and you may preach tolerance to your friends.

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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.

Verb
speak, plead, or argue in favour of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"

Verb
deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday"


v. i.
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.

v. i.
To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

v. t.
To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

v. t.
To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.

v. t.
To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

v. t.
To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

v. t.
To advise or recommend earnestly.

v.
A religious discourse.


Preach

Preach , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Preached ; p. pr. & vb. n. Preaching.] [OE. prechen, OF. preechier, F. pr'88cher, 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.
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.

Preach

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." Ps. xl. 9. 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." Southey. 5. To advise or recommend earnestly.
My master preaches patience to him.
To preach down, to oppress, or humiliate by preaching. Tennyson. -- To preach up, to exalt by preaching; to preach in support of; as, to preach up equality.

Preach

Preach, n. [Cf. F. pr'88che, fr. pr'88cher. See Preach, v.] A religious discourse. [Obs.] Hooker.

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.

To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

A religious discourse.

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Usage Examples

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

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Other Usage Examples

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

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