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Answer for the clue "Spoke from the pulpit ", 10 letters:
sermonized

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vb. (en-past of: sermonize )

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Sermonize \Ser"mon*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sermonized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sermonizing .] To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. To inculcate rigid rules. [R.] --Chesterfield.

Usage examples of sermonized.

This is why moralistic preaching is such a failure: it breeds only cunning hypocrites--people sermonized into shame, guilt, or fear, who thereupon force themselves to behave as if they actually loved others, so that their "virtues" are often more destructive, and arouse more resentment, than their "vices.

Brilliant economic analysts like the Guardian’s Larry Elliot and complete cranks like Robert Schiller sermonized about the coming “Day of Reckoning”.