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e, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer.

Placed in a pulpit. [R.] Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.

One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.

A preacher. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. [R.] -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.] Chesterfield.

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

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

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt.

Erroneously: A pulpit.

To concur to one end; to agree. The press, the pulpit, and the stage Conspire to censure and expose our age. Roscommon.

lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

rescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin. -- Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn. -- Indian yellow. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. (b) See Euxanthin.

; to usher in. The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott.

y sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions. -- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Bot.), the American plant Arisæma triphyllum, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix is inclosed. -- Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), the stonecrop (Sedum acre). -- Jack-of-the-clock, a figure, usually of a man, on old…

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

ourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place. -- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

, which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings. Hare. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. Pope.