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settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. [R.] "As ye are preached." Southey.

Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." N. Brit. Rev.

Preaching. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.

The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. [R. & Obs.] " Mere pulpitry." Milton.

alled Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and lay struggling as if for life. Encyc. Brit.…

he United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.

nterest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

n trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak. His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.

The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of shriving. In shrift and preaching is my diligence. Chaucer.

ercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity. B. Trumbull.

under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and…

A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.