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

lves Friends. They were called 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.…

The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.

Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader. -- Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church. -- Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in read…

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence. Milton.

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.

Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.

A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

ertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.

Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] S. Harris.

pear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists. Liddell & Scott.

lling. Spelling bee, a spelling match. [U.S.] -- Spelling book, a book with exercises for teaching children to spell; a speller. -- Spelling match, a contest of skill in spelling words, between two or more persons.

stry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.

The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.

One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.

at possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."

Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.