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One who reaches.

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

eaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14.

The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.

A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.] Treacher and coward both. Beau. & Fl.

Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

ccidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

t, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

dy is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

ted journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

y out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

sts, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.