Definition of "preach"

preach

/pɹiːt͡ʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present preaches, present participle preaching, simple past and past participle preached or (nonstandard) praught
1. (intransitive) To give a sermon.
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  One saint’s day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 26
2. (transitive) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
  Quotations
  The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, therefore hathe the Lord anointed me: he hathe ſent me to preache good tidings vnto the poore, […]
  1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, Isaiah LXI:1, folio 304, recto, column 1
3. (transitive) To advise or recommend earnestly.
  Quotations
  My Mr preaches patience to him, […]
  c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i], page 98, column 1
4. (transitive) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
  Quotations
  The Spirits of the Dead, / Quitting their mortal mansion, enter not, / As falsely ye are preached, their final seat / Of bliss, or bale; […]
  1801, Robert Southey, “The Ninth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], page 149
5. (intransitive) To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
noun
plural preaches
1. (obsolete) A religious discourse.
  Quotations
  he make peace in his preaches and play with esteem
  1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960,
interjection
1. (slang) Expressing strong agreement (as if encouraging somebody to continue speaking).

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