英语词汇“preachment”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

preach /prēch/

intransitive verb

To deliver a sermon

To discourse earnestly

To give advice in a sententious, tedious, obtrusive or offensive manner

transitive verb

To set forth or expound in religious discourses

To deliver (a sermon)

To proclaim or teach publicly

To advise, advocate, recommend or inculcate

To render or put by preaching

noun

informal

A sermon

ORIGIN: Fr prêcher, from L praedicāre, -ātum to proclaim

preachˈer noun

Someone who discourses publicly on religious matters

A minister or clergyman

An assiduous inculcator or advocate

preachˈership noun

preachˈify intransitive verb (informal)

To preach, esp tediously

To sermonize or moralize

To give advice wearisomely

preachˈily adverb

preachˈiness noun

preachˈing noun and adjective

preachˈment noun

preachˈy adjective

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