pulpit
PULPIT
*suggestus sacer; *suggestum sacrum; in connection also suggestus only. Pulpet eloquence *ars de sacro suggestu bene dicendi.
*suggestus sacer; *suggestum sacrum; in connection also suggestus only. Pulpet eloquence *ars de sacro suggestu bene dicendi.
pulpit:
I. In the orig. Latin sense, a raised platform to speak from: as,
/* "Produce his body to the market-place, And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend, Speak in the order of his funeral." */
/* (Shaksp.) */
1. rostra, orum, n. (the permanent gallery across the Roman forum, from which the orators addressed the comitia): Liv. 8, 14: Cic. in Pis. 3, fin.
2. suggestus, ūs; or -um, i, n. (prop. a raised mound): comp. illud suggestum in quo causam dixerat, ascendens, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 124: v.PLATFORM .
3. pulpĭtum (a boarded scaffold, esp. the stage of a theatre): Suet. Ner. 13: Juv. 3, 174: v.STAGE .
II. In a church:
1. căthedra (orig. the chair of a teacher or professor, Juv. 7, 203: hence Fr. chaire = pulpit): for its ecclesiastical use, see Du Cang. s. v.
2. exedra: Aug. (Quich.). Phr.: p. eloquence, *facundia sacra: a great p. orator, *facundiae sacrae antistes: to mount the p., in rostra (cathedram, exedram) escendere, Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80. To speak from the p., *ex cathedra loqui (prov. for dogmatic teaching).
I. In the orig. Latin sense, a raised platform to speak from: as,
/* "Produce his body to the market-place, And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend, Speak in the order of his funeral." */
/* (Shaksp.) */
1. rostra, orum, n. (the permanent gallery across the Roman forum, from which the orators addressed the comitia): Liv. 8, 14: Cic. in Pis. 3, fin.
2. suggestus, ūs; or -um, i, n. (prop. a raised mound): comp. illud suggestum in quo causam dixerat, ascendens, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 124: v.
3. pulpĭtum (a boarded scaffold, esp. the stage of a theatre): Suet. Ner. 13: Juv. 3, 174: v.
II. In a church:
1. căthedra (orig. the chair of a teacher or professor, Juv. 7, 203: hence Fr. chaire = pulpit): for its ecclesiastical use, see Du Cang. s. v.
2. exedra: Aug. (Quich.). Phr.: p. eloquence, *facundia sacra: a great p. orator, *facundiae sacrae antistes: to mount the p., in rostra (cathedram, exedram) escendere, Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80. To speak from the p., *ex cathedra loqui (prov. for dogmatic teaching).