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pulpit

noun
/ˈpʊlpɪt/US/ˈpʉlpɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.

  1. derived from pulpitum — “platform”
  2. derived from pulpite
  3. inherited from pulpit

Definitions

  1. A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands…

    A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.

    • Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
    • [H]is `Amens' were ejected at the pulpit with the severity of a reprimand.

  2. Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit

    Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.

  3. The preaching profession, office, or role in general

    The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Preachers collectively

      Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.

    2. An individual or particular preaching position or role

      An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.

      • He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.

    3. Bully pulpit.

    4. Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.

    5. The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck

      The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.

    6. A bow platform for harpooning.

      • [Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!

    7. A plane's cockpit.

      • In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

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Derived

bully pulpit, Jack-in-the-pulpit, parson-in-the-pulpit, pulpital, pulpited, pulpiteer, pulpiter, pulpitful, pulpitical, pulpitish, pulpitism, pulpitize, pulpitless, pulpitry, wayside pulpit

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA