preace
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[edit]Verb
[edit]preace (third-person singular simple present preaces, present participle preacing, simple past and past participle preaced)
- Obsolete form of preach.
- 1796, A New History of the Holy Bible, page 226:
- […] and so conspicuously did the excellence of this man appear, in preacing the gospel with courage and resolution, and in confirming his doctrine by the miracles which he wrought, that […]
- 1805, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, page 517:
- […] to take away […] one third part of the annual and similar collections for the sick poor of the Asylum and Dispensary, on the pretext that they preaced the Gospel to the poor.