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preaches | preacher |

As a verb preaches

is (preach).

As a proper noun preacher is

alternative name for ecclesiastes, the twenty-first book of the old testament.

preaches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (preach)

    • preach

    English

    Verb

  • To give a sermon.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= 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.
  • To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
  • * Bible, Isa. lxi. 1
    • The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
  • To advise or recommend earnestly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My master preaches patience to him.
  • To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
  • * Southey
    • As ye are preached .

    See also

    * praught

    Related terms

    * practice what one preaches * preach to the choir * preach to the converted

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A religious discourse.
    • (Hooker)

    preacher

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia preacher) (en noun)
  • Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy or religion, especially someone who preaches the Quran or the gospel; a clergyman.
  • * 2004 , Garbi Schmidt, Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago , Page 171

    • Derived terms

    * preacheress