0 present participle of preach
1 (especially of a priest or minister in a church) to give a religious speech:
During the sermon, he preached about the need for forgiveness.
2 to try to persuade other people to believe in a particular belief or follow a particular way of life:
They preach the abolition of established systems but propose nothing to replace them.
3 to give unwanted advice, especially about moral matters, in a boring way:
In the context of this song, the rap text indeed takes on dimensions of both testifying and preaching.
It makes fashionable claims about the ' theatricality ' of preaching and about the ' nuanced ' readings on offer in subsequent essays.
Worse still, they blatantly undermined the colonial mission by preaching divine healing.
The godly among them would have found such ministers' preaching inadequate.
After addressing a few preaching words to the audience, he slowly steps towards the glaring light along with numerous followers.
Obviously here a whole range of stimuli played a part : charismatic preaching, peer pressure, the example of a family member or social superior.
The first was the doctrine of medical prevention that public health reformers had been preaching since early in the century.%!
The governing idea in most seventeenth-century discussions of preaching styles is rhetorical decorum.
