1643 J. Howell True Informer 11 By the incitement of those firey pulpiteers.

1679 R. L'Estrange Answer to Appeal from Country to City 15 Against his Over-hot Church-men, we'l set the Mechanique Pulpiteers and Tub preachers.

1738 D. Neal Hist. Puritans IV. 464 The mouths of the High Church pulpiteers were encouraged to open as loud as possible.

1785 G. Colman Songs, Duetts, Trios &c. in Turk & no Turk 16 My master a gay pulpiteer he is;..A lad in canonicals clad.

1823 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 280 The Revd. Mr Irving, the super-Ciceronian, ultra-Demosthenic Pulpiteer of the Scotch Chapel in Cross Street.

1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 20 A heated pulpiteer, Not preaching simple Christ to simple men.

1936 M. H. Bradley Five Minute Girl vii. 121 Professors & clergymen—just pulpiteers.

1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 516/1 One of TV's seminal pulpiteers was Oral Roberts, who started in the preaching business with ‘the World's Largest Gospel Tent’ in the late 1940s.

1909 N.E.D. at Pulpiteer sb. Pulpiteer, to preach.

1917 R. Hughes We can't have Everything iii. xv. 618 The newspapers..pulpiteered the news and wrote highly moral editorials for sensation's sake.

1927 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Jan. 1 b Fort Worth has been divided into two camps since he has been ‘pulpiteering’ in that city.

1936 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 23 Oct. 4/3 An Appollo who spent evenings pulpiteering at John Callahan's Bowery mission.

1958 H. M. Sachar Course of Mod. Jewish Hist. (1977) 399 The concept has been abused and pulpiteered.