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noun

Pulpit n.

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. "I stand like a clerk in my pulpit."

The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching. "I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause."

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

adjective

Pulpit adj. Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

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Etymology of 'Pulpit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pulpit" Quotes from Famous Books

... get on without faith of some sort. There is a sense in which that is as eminently as obviously true; there is another, in which, in my judgment, it is as eminently as obviously false, and it seems to me that the hortatory, or pulpit, mind is apt to oscillate between the false and the true meanings, without being aware ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... each end of the saloon, and the interior was spacious enough, when the table and lumber were cleared away, to accommodate the whole population. The spirit barrels were heaped together at one end by their owner, so as to make a very fair imitation of a pulpit. ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Reformation, the people were more violent, excited and difficult to rule and satisfy. Freedom of inquiry, of thought, had been applied to political as well as theological matters. If it was boldly proclaimed from the pulpit: 'The kingdom of the Pope is not of God, because he lays upon us unnatural restraint, loads our consciences and makes us carry unnecessary burdens,' the transition was easy to the question: 'Shall ...

— The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli • Johann Hottinger

... aisles in the nave, and a consequent sense of light and spaciousness; the other, the small dome-like roof into which the vaulting of each section of the nave rises. There are some curious old tapestries hung on the walls of the nave, a handsome carved pulpit and some fine glass of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In the chapel to the left is a Calvary by David d'Angers, a sculptor not without honor in his native town. The chief object of interest in the cathedral is the tomb of King ...

— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

... every city, town, and hamlet, loud and earnest came the call, "The Union must be preserved! Away with compromise! Away with further attempts to conciliate traitors! To arms!" Slavery might do all else, so little did most northerners yet feel its evil, but it could not rend the Union. Pulpit, platform, and press echoed with patriotic cries. Everywhere were Union meetings, speeches, and parades. Union badges decked everyone's clothing, and the Stars and Stripes were kept unfurled as only on national holidays before. In New York City a mass-meeting of two hundred thousand ...

— History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

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