concionatorn.
rare or Obsolete.
1. One who makes speeches or harangues; a preacher.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun]
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predicatorc1460
predicant?1519
pulpit man1581
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > one who engages in
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Concionator, a Preacher.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xi. 246 Like some simple Concionator, who naming his Text in a Country Auditory, shut the book, and took leave of it, for the whole howre.
1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. vi. 129 No priest, but a concionator.
2. (See quot. 1706.)
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Concionator..In our ancient Writers, a Common Council-man, a Mot-worthy, a Freeman call'd to the Hall or Assembly.
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