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Examples of pulpit
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The guest preacher got a standing ovation after he stepped down from the pulpit.
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He plans to do pulpit supply and interim work and stay based in the Dothan area.
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The company was in business for one year and then Gibson returned to the pulpit.
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It is an extraordinary pulpit that the former Cardinal Ratzinger has been given.
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There are also too many heavy-handed speeches, from the pulpit to the courtroom.
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They battled for the right to let Reagan be Reagan behind a great Moscow pulpit.
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The son of a Bostonian preacher, Mr Monks has something of the pulpit about him.
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Sometimes he unleashed pulpit-worthy lectures on the nature of love and marriage.
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Mr. Secretary, use your bully pulpit to scrap this ineffective set of mandates.
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- Dais: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- Pulpit is a speakers' stand in a church. In many Christian churches, there are two speakers' stands at the front of the church. Typically, the one on the left (as viewed by the congregation) is called the pulpit. ...
- Pulpit (foaled in 1994 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky), is an American Thoroughbred stallion who now performs stud duties at Claiborne Farm for a fee of $60,000 per live foal. ...
- A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the sermon; The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. ...
- A raised structure adjacent to, or in the center of, the pit or ring at a futures exchange where market reporters, employed by the exchange, record price changes as they occur in the trading pit.
- A sturdy railing around the deck on the bow.
- To dream of a pulpit, denotes sorrow and vexation. To dream that you are in a pulpit, foretells sickness, and unsatisfactory results in business or trades of any character.
- The podium from which a minister preaches. The term was used in the King James Version, where a pulpit was something stood on for elevation when speaking to a crowd. "And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood..." (Nehemiah 8:4 KJV).
- (Gr.; Sl. Amvon, "an elevated place, podium"). A small raised platform or elaborate podium at the left (north) side of the soleas and in the front of the iconostasis. ...
