pulpitryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pulpitry (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The teachings of the pulpit; preaching.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     that this is the true flourishing of a land, other things follow as the shadow does the substance; to teach thus were mere pulpitry to them.

参照

• “pulpitry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.