preach

英 [pri?t?] 美[prit?]

CET6TEM4IELTSGRE考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數:?preaches;過去式:?preached;過去分詞:?preached;現在分詞:?preaching;

1. predic- => preach.

preach 傳道，布道，說教

來自古英語predician,傳道，布道，借自古法語preechier,傳道，布道，來自拉丁語praedicare,公開宣稱，通知，宣布，公告，來自prae,在前面，dicare,說，宣布，公告，詞源同diction,predict.引申貶義詞義說教。

preach: preach: [13] Preach goes back ultimately to Latin praedicāre ‘proclaim’ (source also of English predicament and predicate). Its Old French descendant was prechier, whence English preach (English had actually acquired the word before, directly from Latin in the Anglo-Saxon period, as predician ‘preach’, but this had died out before the Old French word arrived). The semantic shift in the Latin verb from ‘proclaiming’ to ‘preaching’ took place in the early Christian period.
=> predicament, predicate
preach (v.): at first in late Old English predician, a loan word from Church Latin; reborrowed 12c. as preachen, from Old French preechier "to preach, give a sermon" (11c., Modern French précher), from Late Latin praedicare "to proclaim publicly, announce" (in Medieval Latin "to preach"), from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + dicare "to proclaim, to say" (see diction). Related: Preached; preaching. To preach to the converted is recorded from 1867 (form preach to the choir attested from 1979).

1. He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.: 他痛斥了邀請其他大主教同仁布道的決定。