preaches Definition

preach
verb preaches, preached, preaching

tr & intr
1. To deliver (a sermon) as part of a religious service.
2. To give them advice in a tedious or obtrusive manner.

Thesaurus: lecture, orate, exhort, harangue, address, sermonize, advocate, admonish, pontificate, evangelize, preachify, prose.
Form: preach at someone (often)
3. To advise or advocate something.

Derivative: preacher
noun

Someone who preaches, especially a minister of religion.
Thesaurus: minister, evangelist, missionary, parson, revivalist, sermonizer, homilist, moralizer, pontificator, predicant, ranter.

Etymology: 13c: from French prechier, from Latin praedicare to announce publicly.