单词 | field preaching |
释义 | field preachingn. The action or an act of preaching in the open air, esp. by a nonconformist or dissenting preacher. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > open air field preaching1572 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 94v In their Synagogs, their feelde preachings, their secrete lectures. 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose 556 They should Proclaim their Masters Will, though their Lot be often to be a voice crying in the Wilderness, as Iohn the Baptist was in his field Preachings. 1739 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 185 Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount (one pretty remarkable precedent of field-preaching). 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 192 Have you..left a great part of your command at a field-preaching ? View more context for this quotation 1882 J. Taylor Sc. Covenanters 72 At first, these field-preachings were peaceable. 1900 Times 27 Dec. 10/5 The most telling piece of work is the conversion at a field preaching of a ruffian whose strength made him the terror of the country. 1958 Eng. Hist. Rev. 73 535 By the 1780s the majority of Evangelicals had dissociated themselves decisively from..the graver forms of ecclesiastical irregularity such as field preaching. 2009 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 25 June 11 John Wesley shares something of his life: his childhood, his search for faith, his field preaching, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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