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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō. Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
preach (third-person singular simple present preaches, present participle preaching, simple past and past participle preached or (nonstandard) praught)
- (intransitive) To give a sermon.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- 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 learned local Muslim used to preach in the small mosque every Friday.
- (transitive) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 61:1:
- The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
- (transitive) To advise or recommend earnestly.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- My master preaches patience to him.
- (transitive) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- The Spirits of the Dead, / Quitting their mortal mansion, enter not, / As ye are preached, their final seat / Of bliss, or bale.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- (intransitive) To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
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Descendants[edit]
- → Manx: preaçh
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Translations[edit]
give a sermon
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proclaim by public discourse
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advise or recommend earnestly
See also[edit]
Noun[edit]
preach (plural preaches)
- (obsolete) A religious discourse.
- 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, OCLC 715577589; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, OCLC 867955333:
- he make peace in his preaches and play with esteem
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