Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PRAY'ER-FUL – PRE-AD-AM-IT'IC
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PRAY'ER-FUL, a.
- Devotional; given to prayer; as, a prayerful frame of mind.
- Using much prayer.
PRAY'ER-FUL-LY, adv.
With much prayer.
PRAY'ER-FUL-NESS, n.
The use of much prayer.
PRAY'ER-LESS, a.
Not using prayer; habitually neglecting the duty of prayer to God; as, a prayerless family. The next time you go prayerless to bed. – Baxter.
PRAY'ER-LESS-LY, adv.
In a prayerless manner.
Total or habitual neglect of prayer. – T. H. Skinner.
PRAY'ING, ppr.
Asking; supplicating.
PRAY'ING-LY, adv.
With supplication to God.
PRE, a. [PRE-; an English prefix, is the L. præ, before, probably a contracted word; Russ. pred. It expresses priority of time or rank. It may be radically the same as the Italian proda, the prow of a ship; prode, profit, also valiant, whence prowess, from some root signifying to advance. It sometimes signifies beyond, and may be rendered very, as in prepotent.]
Previous accusation. – Lee.
PREACH, n.
A religious discourse. [Not used.] – Hooker.
PREACH, v.i. [D. preeken; Fr. prêcher, for prescher; Arm. pregnein or prezecq; W. preg, a greeting; pregeth, a sermon; pregethu, to preach, derived from the noun, and the noun from rheg, a sending out, utterance, a gift, a curse, imprecation; rhegu, to send out, to give or consign, to curse; Heb. Ch. and Ar. ברך baraka, L. præco, a crier, Sax. fricca or fryccea, a crier. This is from the same root as pray, L. precor, and with s prefixed, gives the G. sprechen, D. spreeken. Sw. språka, to speak; Dan. sprog, speech. Class Brg, No. 2, 3, 4, 5.]
- To pronounce a public discourse on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture. The word is usually applied to such discourses as are formed from a text of Scripture. This is the modern sense of preach.
- To discourse on the Gospel way of salvation and exhort to repentance; to discourse on evangelical truths and exhort to a belief of them and acceptance of the terms of salvation. This was the extemporaneous manner of preaching pursued by Christ and his apostles. – Matth. iv. x. Acts. x. xiv.
PREACH, v.t.
- To proclaim; to publish in religious discourses. What ye hear in the ear, that preach ye on the house-tops. – Matth. x. The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek. – Is. lxi.
- To inculcate in public discourses. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. – Ps. xl. He oft to them preach'd / Conversion and repentance. – Milton.
- To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon. To preach Christ or Christ crucified, to announce Christ as the only Savior, and his atonement as the only ground of acceptance with God. – 1 Cor. i. To preach up, to discourse in favor of. Can they preach up equality of birth? – Dryden.
PREACH'ED, pp.
Proclaimed; announced in public discourse; inculcated.
PREACH'ER, n.
- One who discourses publicly on religious subjects. – Bacon.
- One that inculcates any thing with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but time. – Swift.
PREACH'ER-SHIP, n.
The office of a preacher. [No used.] – Hall.
PREACH'ING, n.
The act of preaching; a public religious discourse. – Milner.
PREACH'ING, ppr.
Proclaiming; publishing in discourse; inculcating.
PREACH'-MAN, n.
A preacher, in contempt. – Howell.
PREACH'MENT, n.
A discourse or sermon, in contempt; a discourse affectedly solemn. – Shak.
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. – Harris.
PRE-AC-QUAINT'ED, a.
Previously acquainted. – Sheridan.
PRE-AD-AM'IC, a.
Prior to Adam. – J. Taylor.
PRE-AD'AM-ITE, n. [pre, before, and Adam.]
An inhabitant of the earth that lived before Adam. – Pereyra.
PRE-AD-AM-IT'IC, a.
Designating what existed before Adam; as, fictitious preadamitic periods. – Kirwan.