Word Meanings - STRIVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.

Related words: (words related to STRIVED)

• STRIVE
  1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
• PREACH
  cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
• PREACHMENT
  A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
• GOSPELIZE
  1. To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us. Milton. 2. To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. Boyle.
• STRIVEN
  p. p. of Strive.
• STRIVED
  Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.
• PREACHIFY
  To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• PREACHER
  1. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14. 2. One who inculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird , a toucan.
• STRIVER
  One who strives.
• PREACHMAN
  A preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell.
• STRIVING
  from Strive. -- Striv"ing*ly, adv.
• GOSPEL
  1. Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the
• GOSPELER
  1. One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif. 2. A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the
• PREACHING
  The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• DISGOSPEL
  To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel. Milton.
• RESTRIVE
  To strive anew.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• UNPREACH
  To undo or overthrow by preaching. De Foe.