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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of pulpit.

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Examples

  • A lot of this relegious crap would end if the rich and powerful relegious leaders were required to pay taxes……Being exempt should no longer apply when they use their pulpet to force their will on the public and use it to change the constitution to suit their bible thumping…..

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 3, 2007 2007

  • I happen to think that Hugh Hefner demonstrates better morals and is a better example of a socially-conscious, patriotic Citizen than any any randomly selected politician or pulpet-pounder you are likely to come up with as a counterexample.

    The Abandonment of Moral Agency in America. 2007

  • Every Christian hate monger who screams his hate and bigotry from the Christian pulpet is a closet homosexual who hates himself as much as he hates everyone else.

    Think Progress » From Ted Haggard’s sermon last week, 2006

  • And when he ended his Sermone, incontinent thei caused Maister George to ascend into the pulpet, there to heir his Accusatioun and Articles; for rycht against him stood up one of the fedd flok, a monstere, [397] Johnne

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • But Virginia savouring not handsomely in England, very few of good conversation would adventure thither, (as thinking it a place wherein surely the fear of God was not), yet many came, such as wore black coats, and could babble in a pulpet, roare in a tavern, exact from their parishioners, and rather by their dissolutenesse destroy than feed their flocks.

    Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers 1919

  • Those who came had been "such as wore black coats and could babble in a pulpet, and roare in a tavern, exact from their parishioners, and rather by their dissolutenesse destroy than feed their flocks."

    England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

  • It might not have been an Islamic temple pretending to be a church, but, it sure had some preachers shouting from the pulpet to get someone who ISN'T a Liberal ... thinking that it MIGHT be.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories FairNBalanced 2010

  • It might not have been an Islamic temple pretending to be a church, but, it sure had some preachers shouting from the pulpet to get someone who ISN'T a Liberal ... thinking that it MIGHT be.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories FairNBalanced 2010

  • It might not have been an Islamic temple pretending to be a church, but, it sure had some preachers shouting from the pulpet to get someone who ISN'T a Liberal ... thinking that it MIGHT be.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories FairNBalanced 2010

  • It might not have been an Islamic temple pretending to be a church, but, it sure had some preachers shouting from the pulpet to get someone who ISN'T a Liberal ... thinking that it MIGHT be.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories FairNBalanced 2010

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