intransitive. To discourse or preach; to talk, converse, or speak.

absol. To preach (the gospel). Obsolete.

intransitive. To deliver a sermon or religious address.

transitive. To denounce or preach from the pulpit. Also intransitive: to officiate, preach from the pulpit.

intransitive. To discourse, to preach, sermonize. (In quot. 1857 perhaps transitive. To preach to.)

intransitive. To deliver or compose a sermon; = preach, v. 1. Chiefly depreciative.

intransitive. To deliver an oration; to preach.

intransitive. To deliver a sermon or address; to preach. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To preach from or as from a pulpit. Also intransitive.