preachˈer noun

1. Someone who discourses publicly on religious matters
2. A minister or clergyman
3. An assiduous inculcator or advocate

preachˈership noun

preachˈify intransitive verb (informal)

1. To preach, esp tediously
2. To sermonize or moralize
3. To give advice wearisomely

preachˈily adverb

preachˈiness noun

preachˈing noun and adjective

preachˈment noun

1. A sermon (derogatory)
2. A sermon-like discourse
3. Sermonizing

preachˈy adjective

1. Given to tedious moralizing
2. Savouring of preaching

preachˈing-cross noun

A cross in an open place at which monks, etc, preached

preaching friar noun

A Dominican

preachˈing-house noun

A Methodist church

preach down or up

Respectively, to decry or extol

preaching with a view

Preaching as a candidate in a vacant pastoral charge

the Preacher

1. The authors or spokesman of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament
2. The book itself