ˈpreaching-house
[f. preaching vbl. n. + house n.]
A house or building devoted to or adapted for preaching; spec. Wesley's name for a Methodist place of worship, in frequent use among Methodists in the 18th and early 19th c.
| 1747 J. Wesley Jrnl. 2 Nov. (1912) III. 321 Mr. J. Richards had just sent his brother word that he had hired a mob to pull down his preaching-house that night. 1760 Wesley Jrnl. 16 Sept., I ordered all the windows of the preaching-house to be set open. a 1791 ― Wks. (1830) VIII. 321 Warn them..Against calling..our Houses, ‘Meeting-houses’: Call them plain preaching-houses, or chapels. 1763 Lady F. Gardiner in Coke & Moore Wesley iii. ii. (1792) 414, I have never..been at the preaching-house in a morning yet, as they preach so early. 1817 S. Drew T. Coke iv. 49 The building of a preaching-house [in New York] was taken into serious consideration. This was..accomplished in the year 1768, being the first Methodist preaching-house that ever presented itself to view in the western world. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 1 The old preaching-house type of the Georgian period. |