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What is a pulpit?

What is a pulpit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
  2. Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
  3. A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
  4. (nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as as stern pulpit; other texts use the perhaps more appropriate term pushpit.
  5. A bow platform for harpooning.
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He knows how to work a crowd, he gives a good sermon and produces a splendid pulpit sweat.
During New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, he thundered from the pulpit against Wall Street's malefactors of great wealth.
While Nicholson found his calling in the pulpit, he also continued to put his woodworking to work for his congregation.
In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of oriental women swathed in white mantles.
When it came time for the sermon, he watched the minister take off his wristwatch and place it on the pulpit.
A political programme that erodes human dignity is an affront to all of us, and deserves condemnation from every pulpit in the land.

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