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{ "etymology_text": "Derived from preach by analogy with teach : taught. Apparently a modern jocular construction but taken seriously by some. In print, generally appearing as a nonce in a much-quoted doggerel verse, attributed by some to Phoebe Cary in 1854, appearing in Punchinello 1.27 in 1870, there attributed to Amos Keeter. See quot. 1870.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb form" }, "expansion": "praught", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1870, Amos Keeter, “The Lovers”, in Punchinello, volume 1, number 27:", "text": "SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,\nAnd her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught;\nThough his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List http://memoriam.anglicansonline.org/mamawolf/msg00352.html\n… I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it …" }, { "text": "2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071205165638/http://www.briantumelty.dnet.co.uk/homily_pubs/B04_Ord_00.htm\nThey praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out." }, { "text": "2000-11-18 CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] https://web.archive.org/web/20020921030600/http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/sermonarchive/major/2000/sermon18xi00.htm" }, { "text": "2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online http://gazette.ireland.anglican.org/160802/panorama160802.htm\n… including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop." }, { "text": "2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries http://www.bfiministries.org/newsletter.April.May04.htm\nSo, I ‘praught’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers …" }, { "text": "2004-06-01 Ian McLeod's Confusticated World http://ianmcleod.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_ianmcleod_archive.html\nYesterday our new preacher praught a very good lesson, in which he stated …" }, { "ref": "2005-09-19 Xander: And the Army is disciplined... https://web.archive.org/web/20051101010542/http://xander.lifewithchrist.org/permalink/15985", "text": "I went to Balga Corps in the morning, then praught at a youth meeting at Morley Corps in the evening." } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "preach" } ], "glosses": [ "simple past and past participle of preach" ], "id": "en-praught-en-verb-QhkmNlW2", "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "preach", "preach#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(nonstandard or humorous) simple past and past participle of preach" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "preached" } ], "tags": [ "form-of", "humorous", "nonstandard", "participle", "past" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/pɹɔːt/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɔːt" } ], "word": "praught" }
{ "etymology_text": "Derived from preach by analogy with teach : taught. Apparently a modern jocular construction but taken seriously by some. In print, generally appearing as a nonce in a much-quoted doggerel verse, attributed by some to Phoebe Cary in 1854, appearing in Punchinello 1.27 in 1870, there attributed to Amos Keeter. See quot. 1870.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "verb form" }, "expansion": "praught", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English humorous terms", "English non-lemma forms", "English nonstandard terms", "English terms with quotations", "English verb forms", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ɔːt", "Rhymes:English/ɔːt/1 syllable" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1870, Amos Keeter, “The Lovers”, in Punchinello, volume 1, number 27:", "text": "SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,\nAnd her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught;\nThough his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List http://memoriam.anglicansonline.org/mamawolf/msg00352.html\n… I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it …" }, { "text": "2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071205165638/http://www.briantumelty.dnet.co.uk/homily_pubs/B04_Ord_00.htm\nThey praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out." }, { "text": "2000-11-18 CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] https://web.archive.org/web/20020921030600/http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/sermonarchive/major/2000/sermon18xi00.htm" }, { "text": "2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online http://gazette.ireland.anglican.org/160802/panorama160802.htm\n… including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop." }, { "text": "2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries http://www.bfiministries.org/newsletter.April.May04.htm\nSo, I ‘praught’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers …" }, { "text": "2004-06-01 Ian McLeod's Confusticated World http://ianmcleod.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_ianmcleod_archive.html\nYesterday our new preacher praught a very good lesson, in which he stated …" }, { "ref": "2005-09-19 Xander: And the Army is disciplined... https://web.archive.org/web/20051101010542/http://xander.lifewithchrist.org/permalink/15985", "text": "I went to Balga Corps in the morning, then praught at a youth meeting at Morley Corps in the evening." } ], "form_of": [ { "word": "preach" } ], "glosses": [ "simple past and past participle of preach" ], "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "preach", "preach#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(nonstandard or humorous) simple past and past participle of preach" ], "tags": [ "form-of", "humorous", "nonstandard", "participle", "past" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/pɹɔːt/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɔːt" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "preached" } ], "word": "praught" }
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