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To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. Herbert.

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.

ay. -- To sit under, to be 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. "…

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

hcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.

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

eing compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel. Whitgift. Still and anon, at intervals and repeatedly; continually; ever and anon; now and then. And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time. Shak.

Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.

Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error. We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23.

n the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."

One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. The teachers in all the churches assembled. Sir W. Raleigh.

of a doctrine. How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! Cowper.

property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

sly. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.

The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road. It is preached at every turning. Coleridge.

desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham. Sir J. Davies.

w, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers. Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer.

Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany. Donne. Preacher at once, and zany of thy age. Pope.