preach

Meanings

Verb

• To give a sermon.
• To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
• To advise or recommend earnestly.
• To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
• To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.

Noun

• A religious discourse.

Origin

• From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō. predicate.
• The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician, Saterland Frisian preetje ("to preach"), West Frisian preekje ("to preach"), Dutch preken ("to preach"), German Low German preken ("to preach"), German predigen, Danish prædike, Swedish predika, Icelandic prédika, Norwegian Nynorsk preika.