What is "preached"

Usage examples of "preached".

The despoiling of ability has been the purpose of every creed that preached self-sacrifice.

The primitive ideas of the merit and holiness of celibacy were preached by the monks and entertained by the Greeks.

And then I saw that the whole industrial establishment of the world, with all of its magnificent machinery, its thousand-ton furnaces, its transatlantic cables, its mahogany offices, its stock exchanges, its blazing electric signs, its power, its wealth—all of it was run, not by bankers and boards of directors, but by any unshaved humanitarian in any basement beer joint, by any face pudgy with malice, who preached that virtue must be penalized for being virtue, that the purpose of ability is to serve incompetence, that man has no right to exist except for the sake of others.

The religion of the nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples.

Jesus Christ preached himself in Syro-Chaldaic, as is proved by many words which he used, and which the Evangelists have taken the pains to translate.

But if the zeal of Cyprian was supported by the sincere conviction of the truth of those doctrines which he preached, the crown of martyrdom must have appeared to him as an object of desire rather than of terror.

Boniface, who preached the gospel among the savages of Hesse and Thuringia.

From an obscure residence in Syria, they secretly despatched their agents and missionaries, who preached in the Eastern provinces their hereditary indefeasible right.

During a long dream of superstition, the Virgin and the Saints, their visions and miracles, their relics and images, were preached by the monks, and worshipped by the people.

In his passage through Geneva, Servetus was a harmless stranger, who neither preached, nor printed, nor made proselytes.

When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he bad preached, he came to live in America.

And when you saw it, you saw the real motive of any person who's ever preached the slogan: 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,' "This was the whole secret of it.

She had always wondered, in incredulous contempt, about the sects that preached the annihilation of the universe as the ideal to be attained.

Who was that philosopher, she thought, who preached that motion exists without any moving entities?

But what I saw in their faces, and in the way they spoke when they crowded to praise me, was the thing I had heard being preached to artists—only I had never believed that anyone human could mean it.