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pulpitize

pulpitize verb: to preach or lecture as if from a pulpit.

Verb

pulpitize (third-person singular simple present pulpitizes, present participle pulpitizing, simple past and past participle pulpitized)

  1. To preach or lecture as if from a pulpit.
    • The Metropolitan Community Church groupies there to hear Father Malcolm Boyd pulpitize his latest book.1977 April 23, Freddie Greenfield, “Listening To The Gay Goyim”, in Gay Community News, page 5

Forms of pulpitize

third-person singular presentpulpitizes
present participlepulpitizing
past participlepulpitized
pastpulpitized

Origin of pulpitize

From pulpit + -ize.

Questions about pulpitize

What does pulpitize mean?
Pulpitize means to preach or lecture as if from a pulpit.
What part of speech is pulpitize?
Pulpitize is a verb.
What is the past tense of pulpitize?
The past tense of pulpitize is pulpitized.

Words near pulpitize in the dictionary

  1. pulpitical
  2. pulpitically
  3. pulpitis
  4. pulpitish
  5. pulpitism
  6. pulpitize
  7. pulpitized
  8. pulpitizes
  9. pulpitizing
  10. pulpitless
  11. pulpitry

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