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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiv ^v For though this appere a propre pulpet peese, Yet whan the foxe preacheth, than beware our geese.

1650 J. Milton Tenure of Kings (ed. 2) 47 That men may yet more fully know the difference betwee[n] Protestant Divines, and these Pulpit-firebrands.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V lxx, in Poems (1878) IV. 118 And Pulpit Drums awake the Iland round; All Boanerges.

1658 tr. G. Sinibaldi Rare Verities To Rdr. sig. A4 I shall not at this present imitate some long-winded Pulpit-thumpers.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 11 Your weapons of offence..you might have reserv'd for some of your pulpit-officers.

?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 19 The Pulpit-prater, (that has his Religion in his Tongue and Eyes, I mean, his Sermon-Notes).

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 564 Henceforth those Pulpit-Drones..let not a braggart of a Frenchman praise.

1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) xiii. 230 Though he [sc. Bp. Pecock] censured these pulpit-bawlers, as he called them.

1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 313 I'll have no pulpit-thumper doggin' me.

2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 June (Features section) 16 The Cork-based Capuchin pulpit-thumper who founded the evangelical Pledge Movement in the mid-19th century.