Pontificate vs Preach - What's the difference?
pontificate | preach |
To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
* 2007 ,
To give a sermon.
* , chapter=3
, title= To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
* Bible, Isa. lxi. 1
To advise or recommend earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
* Southey
(obsolete) A religious discourse.
In intransitive terms the difference between pontificate and preach
is that pontificate is to speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length while preach is to give a sermon.pontificate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pontificatus, from .Etymology 2
From the past participle stem of mediaeval (etyl) .Verb
(pontificat)New York Times
- During a policy discussion awhile back about New York issues, when Mr. Clinton began to pontificate , she told him that he did not exactly know what he was talking about and to hush up.
preach
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Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- A local Muslim used to preach from the Quran and hadith.
- The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
- My master preaches patience to him.
- As ye are preached .
See also
* praughtNoun
(es)- (Hooker)