单词 | pulpitry |
释义 | pulpitryn. The work or service of the pulpit; preaching; (in depreciative sense) the conventional talk of the pulpit, sermonizing. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] bodingc1000 preachinga1300 sermoninga1300 predicationa1325 preachmentc1330 prophesyingc1520 pulpitingc1540 doctrine1560 prophesying1574 prophecy1577 desk1581 pulpitry1606 predicancy1627 prophecy1631 sermonizing1635 pulpitizing1651 predicament1765 preachery1828 sermonology1854 parsonizing1864 kerygma1889 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xc. 389 For Fare And greater Ease than Studie them or Pulpetrie can spare. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 43 To teach thus were meer pulpitry to them. 1861 K. H. Digby Chapel St. John (1863) 55 But perhaps you do not like pulpitry. 1946 R. M. Linder Stone Walls & Men v. 63 The pap and nonsense of a sentimental pulpitry, art, and literature. 1968 S. Hoffmann Gulliver's Troubles iii. viii. 242 He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general. 2000 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 July It can be tough..when your father, the prime minister, has just indulged in pulpitry about drunken yobs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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