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pontificate
English
Etymology 1
From Latin pontificatus, from pontifex (“high priest”), from pons (“bridge”) + facere (“make”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p?n?t?f?k?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??n?t?f?k?t/
Noun
pontificate (plural pontificates)
- The status or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex.
Translations
Etymology 2
From the past participle stem of mediaeval Latin pontificare (“pontificate”), from Latin pontifex (“high priest”), from pons (“bridge”) + facere (“make”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p?n?t?f?ke?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??n?t?f?ke?t/
Verb
pontificate (third-person singular simple present pontificates, present participle pontificating, simple past and past participle pontificated)
- (intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- (intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
- (intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
Translations
Italian
Verb
pontificate
- second-person plural present indicative of pontificare
- second-person plural imperative of pontificare
- feminine plural of pontificato
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preach
English
Etymology
From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedic?. Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i?t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Verb
preach (third-person singular simple present preaches, present participle preaching, simple past and past participle preached or (nonstandard) praught)
- (intransitive) To give a sermon.
- A learned local Muslim used to preach in the small mosque every Friday.
- (transitive) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
- The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
- (transitive) To advise or recommend earnestly.
- (transitive) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- The Spirits of the Dead, / Quitting their mortal mansion, enter not, / As ye are preached, their final seat / Of bliss, or bale.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- (intransitive) To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
Derived terms
- preacher
- preachy
Related terms
- practice what one preaches, practise what one preaches
- preach to the choir
- preach to the converted
Translations
See also
- praught
Noun
preach (plural preaches)
- (obsolete) A religious discourse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Anagrams
- eparch, pearch
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