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Definition of: pulpit
(p
l′pit) noun
1. An elevated stand or desk for a preacher in a church.
2. The office or work of preaching; hence, the clergy as a class.
3. An elevated platform usually boxed in and variously used: the harpooner's pulpit on a whaling vessel.
—adjective Of or pertaining to the pulpit: pulpit oratory. [<L pulpitum a scaffold, stage, platform]
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