praught

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/pɹɔːt/

A form of preach — To give a sermon.

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Meanings

verb
  1. humorousnonstandardparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of preach

    1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List http://memoriam.anglicansonline.org/mamawolf/msg00352.html … I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it …

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    SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught, And her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught; Though his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.

    1870, Amos Keeter, “The Lovers”, in Punchinello, volume 1, number 27

    2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071205165638/http://www.briantumelty.dnet.co.uk/homily_pubs/B04_Ord_00.htm They praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out.

    2000-11-18 CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] https://web.archive.org/web/20020921030600/http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/sermonarchive/major/2000/sermon18xi00.htm

    2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online http://gazette.ireland.anglican.org/160802/panorama160802.htm … including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop.

    2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries http://www.bfiministries.org/newsletter.April.May04.htm So, I ‘praught’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers …

    Synonyms: preached

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Origin

Derived from preach by analogy with teach : taught. Apparently a modern jocular construction but taken seriously by some. In print, generally appearing as a nonce in a much-quoted doggerel verse, attributed by some to Phoebe Cary in 1854, appearing in Punchinello 1.27 in 1870, there attributed to Amos Keeter. See quot. 1870.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with praught

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Chicago

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