preachern.

Brit.

/ˈpriːtʃə/, U.S.

/ˈpritʃər/

Forms: Middle English preachur (south-west midlands), Middle English precheour, Middle English prechiour, Middle English prechor, Middle English prechoure, Middle English prechowr, Middle English prechowre, Middle English prechur, Middle English prechure, Middle English preichour, Middle English preychour, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s preachour, Middle English–1500s prechour, Middle English–1600s (1800s– regional and nonstandard) precher, 1500s prechar, 1500s– preacher, 1900s– praicher (Irish English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 preachear, pre-1700 preacheour, pre-1700 preachour, pre-1700 preatcheour, pre-1700 preatcher, pre-1700 preatchour, pre-1700 prechear, pre-1700 precheour, pre-1700 precheoure, pre-1700 precher, pre-1700 prechore, pre-1700 prechour, pre-1700 prechoure, pre-1700 prechowr, pre-1700 prechur, pre-1700 preichar, pre-1700 preichare, pre-1700 preicheir, pre-1700 preicheour, pre-1700 preicher, pre-1700 preichor, pre-1700 preichour, pre-1700 preitchear, pre-1700 preitcher, pre-1700 preitchere, pre-1700 preschour, pre-1700 pretcher, pre-1700 priechour, pre-1700 1700s– preacher. N.E.D.(1907) also records a form late Middle English preachour.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French precheour, precher, precheor.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman precheour, prechiour, prechour, prechur, prescheour, also (nominative singular) precher, prechere, and Old French precheor, prechor (Middle French, French prêcheur , †prescheur ) person who foretells or proclaims (a thing) (c1170 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), person who preaches or exhorts (late 12th cent. as proicheor ), Dominican friar (late 13th cent. or earlier) < post-classical Latin praedicator preacher (see predicator n.). Compare Old Occitan predicaire (c1150 as nominative singular; Occitan predicaire), predicador (13th cent. as accusative singular and plural; Occitan predicador), Catalan predicador (14th cent.; earlier as †preïcador (1251)), Spanish predicador (c1230), Portuguese predicador (1302), Italian predicatore (beginning of the 14th cent.; compare earlier †frati predicatory (plural) Dominican friars (13th cent.)).With sense 2 compare Friars Preachers at friar n. 2a, and later preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds. With sense 3 compare German Prediger (1545 or earlier in Luther's translation of the Bible, denoting Solomon as supposed speaker in the Book of Ecclesiastes; the usual German title of the book in Lutheran Bible translations is Prediger Salomo). Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as reflecting currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: William le precher (c1208).

a. A person who preaches, esp. one whose occupation or function is to preach the (Christian) gospel; a person who delivers a sermon or sermons; a minister of religion (sometimes spec. one licensed to preach).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > edifier

preacher?c1225

edifier1678

lay bishop1693

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun]

angelOE

spellera1200

preacher?c1225

sermonerc1325

predicatorc1460

predicant?1519

pulpit man1581

homilist1616

concionator1623

sermonist1630

sermoneera1637

homiliana1641

pulpiteer1643

preachman1647

sermonizer1651

pulpitarian1654

pulpiter1681

predicatory1686

preacher man1848

preach1955

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 9 Prelaz & treowe Preachiurs [?a1289 Scribe D Prechurs].

c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 221 Hi ne hedden neue te i heer[r]d prophete ne apostle ne prechur.

c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) 317 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 502 (MED) Þe beste prechour he was iholde þat me owar vnderstode.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 158 (MED) Forto kepen þe pes & defenden þe prelates & þe prechours [Fr. precheur] forto techen goddes folk.

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Prechour For thi suld ilke precheour schau The god that godd hauis hert him knau.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 88 A famose and a plesaunt precher to peple in a pulpit.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. iii. 28 That now was the tyme to playe the preacher.

1562 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xxvii. 284 By a preacher is meant such an one as hath preached before his ordinary, and hath his approbation under seal to be a preacher.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 245 Priests to be sober and sad, a Preacher by his life to giue good example, [etc.].

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. vi. 135 A graue and learned Minister, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1970) III. 247 To church; and there being a lazy preacher, I sleep out the sermon.

1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §398. 110 That Minister whose Life is not the Model of his Doctrin, is a Babler rather than a Preacher.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. viii. 198 The Bell, an excellent House... The Master of it is Brother to the great Preacher Whitefield.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xxv. 289 While he rehearsed his heroics, they walked cap in hand before him, respecting him like a high-way preacher.

1815 S. J. Mills & D. Smith Rep. Missionary Tour 19 Many of their preachers are exceedingly illiterate.

1859 J. H. Newman in Rambler Nov. 41 John of Antioch..had been the great preacher of the day.

1885 A. Edgar Old Church Life Scotl. 177 A moveable pulpit made of wood for the preacher to stand in.

1926 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles ii. 32 The early traveling preachers and judges who did their rounds of duty in the scattered New England settlements.

1954 Times 27 Feb. 5/4 11 Africans sentenced to death..for the murder of a Muslim preacher who had denounced the cult to which the men belonged.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xvi. 291 Pastor Church Smith, a Pentecostal preacher, was baptizing the hippies who wandered along the Huntington and Laguna beaches.

b. With of: a person who preaches or advocates a particular message, doctrine, practice, etc. Also preacher up (cf. preach v. 2c).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises > by preaching

preacher up1870

c1300 St. Paul (Laud) 43 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 191 (MED) To beo prechour of mi word, i-chose ich him habbe.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 3356 (MED) Thou..hast destruid to mochel schame The prechours of his holy name.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 21179 Þese were þe apostlis twelue..Precheres [a1400 Vesp. Spellers] of trouþe.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 23 Men scholde haue the prechoures of Holi Scripture in greete reuerence.

a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 760 (MED) Þe goode scheperde or prelate or prechour of þe worde of gode..preches with þe horne of goddes worde.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Pref. Precheouris of y^e word of god.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 The first Preachers of the Gospel.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xii. 126 We have him still a perpetual Preacher of his own vertues.

1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §395. 110 He is among us still, and in us too, a living and perpetual Preacher of the same Grace.

1714 Boston News-let. 22 Mar. 2/1 He was for many years a Preacher of the Gospels at the Isle of Shoals.

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments i. §iv. i. 104 Seneca, that great preacher of insensibility.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. iii. 40 Ever in conclave, with persons..who..are the preachers of violence.

1861 Contributions to Eccl. Hist. of Connecticut 276 He was soon known as a preacher of Unitarian doctrines.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 139 The denouncer of shams, the preacher up of sincerity.

1909 R. M. Jones Stud. Mystical Relig. 367 Hus, from the pulpit of the Bethlehem Chapel, became a powerful preacher of righteousness.

1960 K. Burke Let. 20 July in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 337 He fits especially well because of his turn from pagan word-merchant (venditor verborum) to preacher of The Word.

1993 Industry Week 6 Dec. 23/1 Overseeing a conglomorate that traffics in everything from space-saving radios to network-TV programming, Mr. Welch is a tireless preacher of the gospel of go and grow.

c. figurative and in extended use: a person who exhorts others earnestly; a person who advocates or inculcates something by speech or writing, esp. in a self-righteous or overbearing manner; a person who or thing which imparts a lesson or commends an attitude.In quot. a1425: (perhaps) a disputant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > exhortation > one who

preacherc1395

exhorter1552

hortator1880

evangelist1978

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 165 ‘Now, dame,’ quod he, ‘by god and by seint Iohn, Ye been a noble prechour in this cas.’

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 38^v Logotheca, a prechoure.

1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 19 If we shold beleue Herome he wil make Platos exiles honest men, & his pestiferous poets good preachers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 9 They are our outward Consciences, And Preachers to vs all.

1711 J. Swift Var. Thoughts in Misc. Prose & Verse 236 No Preacher is listned to but Time.

1792 T. Jefferson Let. 16 June in Papers (1990) XXIV. 85 It is happy for us that these are preachers without followers.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 158 The precipice to my left was a continual preacher of caution.

1864 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 585 These three writers are emphatically preachers and moralists.

1934 W. Lewis Men without Art ii. vii. 193 That is why artists like Tolstoy..turn themselves into preachers, and become insufferable moralists.

1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 231 Why doesn't Mr Williams see this? I think because he is a preacher rather than a thinker, one more interested in exhorting than in analyzing.

1994 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 1 Nov. Long-time cyber-art preacher Roy Ascott, fantasise that cyber-art will completely replace art as we make it and know it today.

2. A member of the Dominican order; a Dominican friar. Now historical and rare.Often contrasted with minor (see minor n. 1). See also preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds, O.P. n. at O n.¹ Initialisms 3, and Friars Preachers at friar n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of

Jacobina1325

preacher?c1335

Black Friar1417

Dominicc1540

Jacobitea1563

preaching friar1598

Dominicana1632

cherubic1826

cherubic friar1826

thong-wearer1901

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 155 (MED) Hail be ȝe, gilmins..Menur wiþ oute and prechur wiþ inne.

a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 48 (MED) Noþer þe menoures chargeþ nouȝt noþer ordeyneþ to ȝeue siche almes to þe prechours.

a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 353 (MED) Prechouris and Menours seyn þe reverse.

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xvi^v In the order of fryers mynours or prechers.

1911 Catholic Encycl. (Electronic ed.) XII. at Order of Preachers Guillaume de Flavacourt..declared that the people refused to hear the word of God from any save the Preachers and Minors.

1952 B. Smalley Study of Bible in Middle Ages vi. 268 It is true that the ethos of the two Orders is different. St. Bonaventure expressed it by saying that the Preachers put learning before holiness, the Minors holiness before learning.

1999 F. Andrews Early Humiliati 218 The reforms of 1246 which brought the administration of the Humiliati up to date, introducing a style of government closely based on that of the order of Preachers.

3. spec. With the and capital initial. Solomon as the supposed speaker in the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. Also: †the book itself (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. i. i. 2 These are the wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid, kynge of Ierusalem. All is but vanite, saieth y^e preacher [L. dixit Ecclesiastes, Wyclif seide Ecclesiastes].

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 7 The book of Psalmes, the Preacher, & the song of Salomon.

1732 D. Collyer Sacred Interpreter (ed. 2) 339 Ecclesiastes, or the Book of the Preacher, was written by Solomon.

1887 J. P. Mahaffy Greek Life & Thought 483 The book of the Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), the book of the Preacher (Ecclesiastes), and the Wisdom of Solomon indicate three separate stages.

1920 N. Bentwich Hellenism 91 As regards the book of the Preacher, some have seen a reproduction of Greek words and phrases in certain novel Hebrew forms.

1967 J. A. Baker tr. W. Eichrodt Theol. Old Testament II. ii.xix. 214 In this respect Man is like the animals (Ps. 104.29); hence the Preacher asks despairingly (Eccles. 3.18–21) whether after death there is any difference between the two.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1859 W. H. Milburn (title) Ten years of preacher-life.

1926 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 27 July 8/3 These boys [sc. young priests] know lots of preacher stories.

2000 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette (Nexis) 3 Nov. 25 The 83-year-old artist is still in the thick of things, juggling the cult of personality with the simpler rewards of his preacher life.

C2. Appositive, as preacher-editor, preacher-saint, etc.

ΚΠ

1876 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 14 Sept. The Toledo Blade has a preacher editor who writes religious editorials on Saturdays and the blackest kind of lying articles the rest of the week.

1881 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180 What thought From preacher-saint have poet and teacher caught?

1895 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 7/1 He may be described as preacher-teacher to the pitmen.

1912 Colorado Springs Gaz. 6 Apr. (heading) Preacher-playwright is sued for divorce.

1990 Jrnl. Black Stud. 20 464 The woman is aroused by the preacher-musician in much the same way as a singer responds to someone playing her song.

1993 India Current (Nexis) 31 Mar. 21 After Guru Nanak came nine more Sikh preacher-saints.

C3.

preacher bench n. (also preacher's bench) a piece of exercise equipment consisting of a seat and a rack from which a dumb-bell is lifted, with a padded arm rest slanting downwards between them, allowing the user to exercise the forearms only, or to pause before lifting a weight over the head.

ΚΠ

1978 Sunday Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 26 Nov. b1/1 The boys hope to add a lap machine, multi-power unit and eventually a preacher curl bench.]

1980 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Oct. c6 (advt.) New heavy duty preachers [sic] bench and lat machine.

1993 Flex Feb. 125/2 Seated comfortably on the Preacher Bench, begin with four reps, tensing the biceps for a one second count at top of the movement at shoulder level.

1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet xii. 165 This woman would straddle a preacher's bench, curl her fingers around the steel bar and begin to lift.

preacher-in-the-pulpit n. chiefly U.S. regional the showy orchis, Galearis spectabilis, having flowers in which the upper petals and sepals form a pink or purple hood above the white lip; cf. priest in the pulpit n. at priest n. Compounds 6.

ΚΠ

1878 T. Meehan Native Flowers & Ferns U.S. I. 53 (heading) Orchis Spectabilis. Showy Orchis or Preacher in the Pulpit.

1979 M. Wiggins Grocer's Daughter in Bet they'll miss us when we're Gone (1991) 178 He taught me how to spot a plant called preacher-in-the-pulpit.

2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 6 Oct. i18 Some [plant] names are downright ominous... Others are religious in nature, including Preacher-in-the-pulpit, Rosary, and Nun's orchids.

preacher man n. originally and chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly southern, south Midland) a minister of religion, a preacher.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun]

angelOE

spellera1200

preacher?c1225

sermonerc1325

predicatorc1460

predicant?1519

pulpit man1581

homilist1616

concionator1623

sermonist1630

sermoneera1637

homiliana1641

pulpiteer1643

preachman1647

sermonizer1651

pulpitarian1654

pulpiter1681

predicatory1686

preacher man1848

preach1955

1848 Lima (Ohio) Argus 27 June Well, then, the preacher man, he axed me if I would have John to be my lawful husband.

1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 286 Everywhere in the mountains we hear of biscuit-bread..preacher-man, granny-woman.

1977 Times 23 May 5/1 A nice, homespun preacherman who spoke with a Southern drawl.

2000 Denver Post 15 Oct. e5/2 Duvall wants a crack at it, the whole Southern preacher-man shtick, but he wants Coppola to direct.

Derivatives

ˈpreacherdom n. preachers collectively; the realm or community of preachers.

ΚΠ

1891 Sat. Rev. 7 Nov. 516/1 The veriest dumb dog in preacherdom.

1923 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 24 Sept. 8/2 J. B. Strode wore a spiritual halo as he pleaded for proper recognition of all preacherdom.

1997 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 17 May 8 a Instead of rejoicing, a sizable chunk of the preacherdom hereabout threw a tantrum.

ˈpreacherless adj. without a preacher.

ΚΠ

1893 Missionary Herald (Boston) Dec. 526 The converts from preacherless villages are swept off their feet by the tide of persecution.

1984 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 26 509 He may..have been extremely uneasy about lay-initiated innovations, such as the preacherless baptisms.

2004 Austin (Texas) American-Statesman (Nexis) 8 Feb. b1 The preacherless congregations got a Sunday sermon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	preacher
释义	preachern. Brit. /ˈpriːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈpritʃər/ Forms: Middle English preachur (south-west midlands), Middle English precheour, Middle English prechiour, Middle English prechor, Middle English prechoure, Middle English prechowr, Middle English prechowre, Middle English prechur, Middle English prechure, Middle English preichour, Middle English preychour, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s preachour, Middle English–1500s prechour, Middle English–1600s (1800s– regional and nonstandard) precher, 1500s prechar, 1500s– preacher, 1900s– praicher (Irish English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 preachear, pre-1700 preacheour, pre-1700 preachour, pre-1700 preatcheour, pre-1700 preatcher, pre-1700 preatchour, pre-1700 prechear, pre-1700 precheour, pre-1700 precheoure, pre-1700 precher, pre-1700 prechore, pre-1700 prechour, pre-1700 prechoure, pre-1700 prechowr, pre-1700 prechur, pre-1700 preichar, pre-1700 preichare, pre-1700 preicheir, pre-1700 preicheour, pre-1700 preicher, pre-1700 preichor, pre-1700 preichour, pre-1700 preitchear, pre-1700 preitcher, pre-1700 preitchere, pre-1700 preschour, pre-1700 pretcher, pre-1700 priechour, pre-1700 1700s– preacher. N.E.D.(1907) also records a form late Middle English preachour. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French precheour, precher, precheor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman precheour, prechiour, prechour, prechur, prescheour, also (nominative singular) precher, prechere, and Old French precheor, prechor (Middle French, French prêcheur , †prescheur ) person who foretells or proclaims (a thing) (c1170 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), person who preaches or exhorts (late 12th cent. as proicheor ), Dominican friar (late 13th cent. or earlier) < post-classical Latin praedicator preacher (see predicator n.). Compare Old Occitan predicaire (c1150 as nominative singular; Occitan predicaire), predicador (13th cent. as accusative singular and plural; Occitan predicador), Catalan predicador (14th cent.; earlier as †preïcador (1251)), Spanish predicador (c1230), Portuguese predicador (1302), Italian predicatore (beginning of the 14th cent.; compare earlier †frati predicatory (plural) Dominican friars (13th cent.)).With sense 2 compare Friars Preachers at friar n. 2a, and later preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds. With sense 3 compare German Prediger (1545 or earlier in Luther's translation of the Bible, denoting Solomon as supposed speaker in the Book of Ecclesiastes; the usual German title of the book in Lutheran Bible translations is Prediger Salomo). Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as reflecting currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: William le precher (c1208). 1. a. A person who preaches, esp. one whose occupation or function is to preach the (Christian) gospel; a person who delivers a sermon or sermons; a minister of religion (sometimes spec. one licensed to preach). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > edifier preacher?c1225 edifier1678 lay bishop1693 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] angelOE spellera1200 preacher?c1225 sermonerc1325 predicatorc1460 predicant?1519 pulpit man1581 homilist1616 concionator1623 sermonist1630 sermoneera1637 homiliana1641 pulpiteer1643 preachman1647 sermonizer1651 pulpitarian1654 pulpiter1681 predicatory1686 preacher man1848 preach1955 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 9 Prelaz & treowe Preachiurs [?a1289 Scribe D Prechurs]. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 221 Hi ne hedden neue te i heer[r]d prophete ne apostle ne prechur. c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) 317 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 502 (MED) Þe beste prechour he was iholde þat me owar vnderstode. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 158 (MED) Forto kepen þe pes & defenden þe prelates & þe prechours [Fr. precheur] forto techen goddes folk. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Prechour For thi suld ilke precheour schau The god that godd hauis hert him knau. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 88 A famose and a plesaunt precher to peple in a pulpit. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. iii. 28 That now was the tyme to playe the preacher. 1562 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xxvii. 284 By a preacher is meant such an one as hath preached before his ordinary, and hath his approbation under seal to be a preacher. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 245 Priests to be sober and sad, a Preacher by his life to giue good example, [etc.]. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. vi. 135 A graue and learned Minister, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1970) III. 247 To church; and there being a lazy preacher, I sleep out the sermon. 1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §398. 110 That Minister whose Life is not the Model of his Doctrin, is a Babler rather than a Preacher. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. viii. 198 The Bell, an excellent House... The Master of it is Brother to the great Preacher Whitefield. View more context for this quotation a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xxv. 289 While he rehearsed his heroics, they walked cap in hand before him, respecting him like a high-way preacher. 1815 S. J. Mills & D. Smith Rep. Missionary Tour 19 Many of their preachers are exceedingly illiterate. 1859 J. H. Newman in Rambler Nov. 41 John of Antioch..had been the great preacher of the day. 1885 A. Edgar Old Church Life Scotl. 177 A moveable pulpit made of wood for the preacher to stand in. 1926 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles ii. 32 The early traveling preachers and judges who did their rounds of duty in the scattered New England settlements. 1954 Times 27 Feb. 5/4 11 Africans sentenced to death..for the murder of a Muslim preacher who had denounced the cult to which the men belonged. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xvi. 291 Pastor Church Smith, a Pentecostal preacher, was baptizing the hippies who wandered along the Huntington and Laguna beaches. b. With of: a person who preaches or advocates a particular message, doctrine, practice, etc. Also preacher up (cf. preach v. 2c). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises > by preaching preacher up1870 c1300 St. Paul (Laud) 43 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 191 (MED) To beo prechour of mi word, i-chose ich him habbe. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 3356 (MED) Thou..hast destruid to mochel schame The prechours of his holy name. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 21179 Þese were þe apostlis twelue..Precheres [a1400 Vesp. Spellers] of trouþe. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 23 Men scholde haue the prechoures of Holi Scripture in greete reuerence. a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 760 (MED) Þe goode scheperde or prelate or prechour of þe worde of gode..preches with þe horne of goddes worde. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Pref. Precheouris of y^e word of god. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 The first Preachers of the Gospel. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xii. 126 We have him still a perpetual Preacher of his own vertues. 1693 W. Penn Some Fruits of Solitude §395. 110 He is among us still, and in us too, a living and perpetual Preacher of the same Grace. 1714 Boston News-let. 22 Mar. 2/1 He was for many years a Preacher of the Gospels at the Isle of Shoals. 1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments i. §iv. i. 104 Seneca, that great preacher of insensibility. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. iii. 40 Ever in conclave, with persons..who..are the preachers of violence. 1861 Contributions to Eccl. Hist. of Connecticut 276 He was soon known as a preacher of Unitarian doctrines. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 139 The denouncer of shams, the preacher up of sincerity. 1909 R. M. Jones Stud. Mystical Relig. 367 Hus, from the pulpit of the Bethlehem Chapel, became a powerful preacher of righteousness. 1960 K. Burke Let. 20 July in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 337 He fits especially well because of his turn from pagan word-merchant (venditor verborum) to preacher of The Word. 1993 Industry Week 6 Dec. 23/1 Overseeing a conglomorate that traffics in everything from space-saving radios to network-TV programming, Mr. Welch is a tireless preacher of the gospel of go and grow. c. figurative and in extended use: a person who exhorts others earnestly; a person who advocates or inculcates something by speech or writing, esp. in a self-righteous or overbearing manner; a person who or thing which imparts a lesson or commends an attitude.In quot. a1425: (perhaps) a disputant. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > exhortation > one who preacherc1395 exhorter1552 hortator1880 evangelist1978 c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 165 ‘Now, dame,’ quod he, ‘by god and by seint Iohn, Ye been a noble prechour in this cas.’ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 38^v Logotheca, a prechoure. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 19 If we shold beleue Herome he wil make Platos exiles honest men, & his pestiferous poets good preachers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 9 They are our outward Consciences, And Preachers to vs all. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Swift Var. Thoughts in Misc. Prose & Verse 236 No Preacher is listned to but Time. 1792 T. Jefferson Let. 16 June in Papers (1990) XXIV. 85 It is happy for us that these are preachers without followers. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 158 The precipice to my left was a continual preacher of caution. 1864 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 585 These three writers are emphatically preachers and moralists. 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art ii. vii. 193 That is why artists like Tolstoy..turn themselves into preachers, and become insufferable moralists. 1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 231 Why doesn't Mr Williams see this? I think because he is a preacher rather than a thinker, one more interested in exhorting than in analyzing. 1994 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 1 Nov. Long-time cyber-art preacher Roy Ascott, fantasise that cyber-art will completely replace art as we make it and know it today. 2. A member of the Dominican order; a Dominican friar. Now historical and rare.Often contrasted with minor (see minor n. 1). See also preaching friar n. at preaching adj. Compounds, O.P. n. at O n.¹ Initialisms 3, and Friars Preachers at friar n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Dominican Order > [noun] > member of Jacobina1325 preacher?c1335 Black Friar1417 Dominicc1540 Jacobitea1563 preaching friar1598 Dominicana1632 cherubic1826 cherubic friar1826 thong-wearer1901 ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 155 (MED) Hail be ȝe, gilmins..Menur wiþ oute and prechur wiþ inne. a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 48 (MED) Noþer þe menoures chargeþ nouȝt noþer ordeyneþ to ȝeue siche almes to þe prechours. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 353 (MED) Prechouris and Menours seyn þe reverse. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xvi^v In the order of fryers mynours or prechers. 1911 Catholic Encycl. (Electronic ed.) XII. at Order of Preachers Guillaume de Flavacourt..declared that the people refused to hear the word of God from any save the Preachers and Minors. 1952 B. Smalley Study of Bible in Middle Ages vi. 268 It is true that the ethos of the two Orders is different. St. Bonaventure expressed it by saying that the Preachers put learning before holiness, the Minors holiness before learning. 1999 F. Andrews Early Humiliati 218 The reforms of 1246 which brought the administration of the Humiliati up to date, introducing a style of government closely based on that of the order of Preachers. 3. spec. With the and capital initial. Solomon as the supposed speaker in the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. Also: †the book itself (obsolete). ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. i. i. 2 These are the wordes of the Preacher, the sonne of Dauid, kynge of Ierusalem. All is but vanite, saieth y^e preacher [L. dixit Ecclesiastes, Wyclif seide Ecclesiastes]. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 7 The book of Psalmes, the Preacher, & the song of Salomon. 1732 D. Collyer Sacred Interpreter (ed. 2) 339 Ecclesiastes, or the Book of the Preacher, was written by Solomon. 1887 J. P. Mahaffy Greek Life & Thought 483 The book of the Son of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), the book of the Preacher (Ecclesiastes), and the Wisdom of Solomon indicate three separate stages. 1920 N. Bentwich Hellenism 91 As regards the book of the Preacher, some have seen a reproduction of Greek words and phrases in certain novel Hebrew forms. 1967 J. A. Baker tr. W. Eichrodt Theol. Old Testament II. ii.xix. 214 In this respect Man is like the animals (Ps. 104.29); hence the Preacher asks despairingly (Eccles. 3.18–21) whether after death there is any difference between the two. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1859 W. H. Milburn (title) Ten years of preacher-life. 1926 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 27 July 8/3 These boys [sc. young priests] know lots of preacher stories. 2000 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette (Nexis) 3 Nov. 25 The 83-year-old artist is still in the thick of things, juggling the cult of personality with the simpler rewards of his preacher life. C2. Appositive, as preacher-editor, preacher-saint, etc. ΚΠ 1876 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 14 Sept. The Toledo Blade has a preacher editor who writes religious editorials on Saturdays and the blackest kind of lying articles the rest of the week. 1881 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180 What thought From preacher-saint have poet and teacher caught? 1895 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 7/1 He may be described as preacher-teacher to the pitmen. 1912 Colorado Springs Gaz. 6 Apr. (heading) Preacher-playwright is sued for divorce. 1990 Jrnl. Black Stud. 20 464 The woman is aroused by the preacher-musician in much the same way as a singer responds to someone playing her song. 1993 India Current (Nexis) 31 Mar. 21 After Guru Nanak came nine more Sikh preacher-saints. C3. preacher bench n. (also preacher's bench) a piece of exercise equipment consisting of a seat and a rack from which a dumb-bell is lifted, with a padded arm rest slanting downwards between them, allowing the user to exercise the forearms only, or to pause before lifting a weight over the head. ΚΠ 1978 Sunday Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 26 Nov. b1/1 The boys hope to add a lap machine, multi-power unit and eventually a preacher curl bench.] 1980 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Oct. c6 (advt.) New heavy duty preachers [sic] bench and lat machine. 1993 Flex Feb. 125/2 Seated comfortably on the Preacher Bench, begin with four reps, tensing the biceps for a one second count at top of the movement at shoulder level. 1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet xii. 165 This woman would straddle a preacher's bench, curl her fingers around the steel bar and begin to lift. preacher-in-the-pulpit n. chiefly U.S. regional the showy orchis, Galearis spectabilis, having flowers in which the upper petals and sepals form a pink or purple hood above the white lip; cf. priest in the pulpit n. at priest n. Compounds 6. ΚΠ 1878 T. Meehan Native Flowers & Ferns U.S. I. 53 (heading) Orchis Spectabilis. Showy Orchis or Preacher in the Pulpit. 1979 M. Wiggins Grocer's Daughter in Bet they'll miss us when we're Gone (1991) 178 He taught me how to spot a plant called preacher-in-the-pulpit. 2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 6 Oct. i18 Some [plant] names are downright ominous... Others are religious in nature, including Preacher-in-the-pulpit, Rosary, and Nun's orchids. preacher man n. originally and chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly southern, south Midland) a minister of religion, a preacher. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] angelOE spellera1200 preacher?c1225 sermonerc1325 predicatorc1460 predicant?1519 pulpit man1581 homilist1616 concionator1623 sermonist1630 sermoneera1637 homiliana1641 pulpiteer1643 preachman1647 sermonizer1651 pulpitarian1654 pulpiter1681 predicatory1686 preacher man1848 preach1955 1848 Lima (Ohio) Argus 27 June Well, then, the preacher man, he axed me if I would have John to be my lawful husband. 1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 286 Everywhere in the mountains we hear of biscuit-bread..preacher-man, granny-woman. 1977 Times 23 May 5/1 A nice, homespun preacherman who spoke with a Southern drawl. 2000 Denver Post 15 Oct. e5/2 Duvall wants a crack at it, the whole Southern preacher-man shtick, but he wants Coppola to direct. Derivatives ˈpreacherdom n. preachers collectively; the realm or community of preachers. ΚΠ 1891 Sat. Rev. 7 Nov. 516/1 The veriest dumb dog in preacherdom. 1923 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 24 Sept. 8/2 J. B. Strode wore a spiritual halo as he pleaded for proper recognition of all preacherdom. 1997 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 17 May 8 a Instead of rejoicing, a sizable chunk of the preacherdom hereabout threw a tantrum. ˈpreacherless adj. without a preacher. ΚΠ 1893 Missionary Herald (Boston) Dec. 526 The converts from preacherless villages are swept off their feet by the tide of persecution. 1984 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 26 509 He may..have been extremely uneasy about lay-initiated innovations, such as the preacherless baptisms. 2004 Austin (Texas) American-Statesman (Nexis) 8 Feb. b1 The preacherless congregations got a Sunday sermon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225
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