pulpit

[Pul·pit]

If you go into a church and see a minister speaking from a high platform, he's speaking from the pulpit.

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An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

Noun
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

n.
An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

n.
The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.

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

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

Pulpit

Pul"pit , n. [L. pulpitum: cf. OF. pulpite, F. pulpitre.] 1. An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

I stand like a clerk in my pulpit.

2. 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.

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

Pulpit

Pul"pit, a. Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

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

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Usage Examples

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

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Other Usage Examples

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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.