Definitions for pulpit

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pulpit pul·pit

Spelling: [poo l-pit, puhl-]

IPA: /ˈpʊl pɪt, ˈpʌl-/

Pulpit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in pulpit (ilpptu).

Definitions for pulpit

noun

1. a platform or raised structure in a church, from which the sermon is delivered or the service is conducted.
2. the pulpit. the clerical profession; the ministry. members of the clergy collectively:
3. (especially in Protestantism and Judaism) the position of pastor or rabbi:
4. preaching.
5. a safety rail rising about 18 to 30 inches (48 to 76 cm) from the deck near the bow and extending around it. a similar rail at the stern.
6. a control booth in a factory, usually elevated and glass-enclosed, from which an operator can observe and direct the manufacturing process.

Origin of pulpit

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin pulpitum pulpit, Latin: platform, stage

Examples for pulpit

To Hice, I suppose, speaking the “biblical truth” means endorsing John McCain from the pulpit, like he did in 2008.

The idea of Turkey wagging his head in a pulpit made me laugh.

He is also accused of using the pulpit to further a cult of personality surrounding himself.

Having ascended the pulpit, Father Massias did not at once speak.

Then I should never have had to encounter the damnable snares of the pulpit!

A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.

There was a large platform, with chairs upon it, but no pulpit or reading-desk.

Look, Hice has every right to spew his hate from the pulpit to those who chose to attend his services.

And yet this old man in the pulpit called it a place where you went to rest!

Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.