noun
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A religious discourse.
verb
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To give a sermon.
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A learned local Muslim used to preach in the small mosque every Friday.
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To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
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To advise or recommend earnestly.
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To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
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To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
Examples of preach in a Sentence
The ejected ministers were forbidden to preach or administer the sacraments.
What we want is the heart, and to win that we must preach the gospel.
Jonah-Jonah was called by God to preach, but refused.
He joined the Methodists, was soon employed as a class leader and local preacher, and continued to preach till a few months before his death.
Even before his acquaintance with Zwingli in 1521 he had begun to preach the Reformation, his sympathetic character and his eloquence making him a great force.
No one was to preach against the Mass, and no one was to be prevented from attending it freely.
The elders are the first or oldest teachers of congregations, for which there is no regular bishop. They have charge of the meetings of such congregations, and participate in excommunication proceedings, besides which they preach, exhort, baptize, and may, when needed, take the offices of the deacons.
Clowes, indeed, had been free from circuit work since 1827, and he continued to pray and preach as he was able till his death in March 1851.
But Ortiz proved a friend and presented them to Paul III., who gave them leave to go to Palestine to preach the Gospel, bestowing upon them abundant alms. He likewise gave licence for those not yet priests to be ordained by any catholic bishop on the title of poverty.
John Cennick, the hymn-writer and schoolmaster at Kingswood, began to preach there in 1739.
As a theologian Swedenborg never attempted to preach or to found a sect.
In most essential points he was a model bishop, and he acquainted himself with Welsh, so as to preach and conduct service in that language.
At another time a rich farmer held a harvest home, and the Buddha, wishing to preach to him, is said to have taken his almsbowl and stood by the side of the field and begged.
Visit schools, preach in churches, carry out street evangelism.
King Frederick now recommended him to Copenhagen to preach heresy at the church of St Nicholas, but here he found an able and intrepid opponent in Bishop Ronne.
He graduated at Yale in 1746; studied there for the three years following; was licensed to preach in 1749 and was a tutor at Yale in 1749-1755.
We can divine from this passage why Paul was so eager himself to preach the word, and left it to others to baptize.
As the clergy did not welcome him to their pulpits, he began to preach in the open air.
This was contrary to the Toleration Act of 1689, which excluded all who should preach or write against the Trinity.
In 1188 he was sent into Wales with the primate Baldwin to preach the Third Crusade.
These Conclusions really contain the sum of Wycliffite teaching; and, if we add that the principal duty of priests is to preach, and that the worship of images, the going on pilgrimages and the use of gold and silver chalices in divine service are sinful (The Peasants' Rising and the Lollards, p. 47), they include almost all the heresies charged in the indictments against individual Lollards down to the middle of the 15th century.
They provided amongst other things that no one was to be allowed to preach without a bishop's licence, that preachers preaching to the laity were not to rebuke the sins of the clergy, and that Lollard books and the translation of the Bible were to be searched for and destroyed.
His position enabled him to procure from the emperor permission for the Jesuits to build churches and to preach throughout the country.
He graduated at Brown University in 1807, was successively a school teacher and an actor, completed a course at the Andover Theological Seminary in September 1810, and was at once licensed to preach as a Congregational clergyman.
He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, at the Yale Divinity School, and at Andover, and was licensed to preach in 1840 by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia.
But the friars, though pretty generally turned out of doors, were themselves beyond Henry's power, and continued to preach everywhere among the people.
Ye have more curses than ye have hairs of your head, and I advise you for Christ's sake not to preach at Navan."
Soon afterwards he left the convent, assumed the habit of a secular priest, and began to preach against confession and the worship of images.
It is the oldest catechism extant, and an excellent example of how Bishop Irenaeus was able not only to defend Christianity as a theologian and expound it theoretically, but also to preach it to laymen.
The first missionary to meet with any success among the Frisians was the Englishman Wilfrid of York, who, being driven by a storm upon the coast, was hospitably received by the king, Adgild or Adgisl, and was allowed to preach Christianity in the land.
As they remained Calvinists they could not preach a universal atonement; they were in fact extreme particular redemptionists.
Spiritual ascetics preach a complete abstinence from the world.
They preach against the weakness of democracy and follow a brutal macho military creed.
Instead, carved crosses were erected at convenient sites for itinerant monks or priests to preach to the inhabitants.
Where is the leader of men who will preach a new crusade against the crying evil of our times?
Does not the five wounds of His blessed body preach this doctrine to love Him?
And we must not preach - we all have our own deep moral failings.
But that does not let us off the hook - we cannot preach free trade abroad and practice protectionism at home.
Martin's approach doubtless appeals to many who are struggling to preach the gospel to a biblically illiterate culture.
Having been often importuned to preach at Cowbridge, this morning I set out with sister Jones and others.
Are we happy to allow the Ku Klux Klan to preach racial intolerance?
Alexander Robert Crawford was licensed to preach on 1 May 1894 and was ordained in the following year as a presbyterian missionary.
He was silenced like other nonconformists in 1662, but continued to preach in private meetings.
Mr. President, is that we cannot successfully preach nonviolence at home while we escalate mass violence abroad.
The main problem that I have with standing to preach is that standing is the posture of public oration.
One man said he didn't agree with my views but I could stay there if I didn't preach pacifism to them.
It's hard to know what to do now there's no Eliot daring to preach about eating a peach.
Modern duty faith preachers are failing in their duty to preach the gospel as Christ preached the gospel.
Having passed through the Edinburgh Divinity Hall he was licensed by the presbytery to preach in 1828.
We cannot preach fair trade abroad and practice protectionism at home.