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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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(Prechar,) Preichar(e, Preachear, -er, n. Also: prechear, pretcher, preiche(i)r, preitchear, -er(e, preatcher. [Late ME prechere, e.m.E. preacher, f. Prech(e v.] A preacher = Prechour n.(1) 1560 Bk. Disc. 196.
That … sick as ar prechearis alreaddy, … be placed to be readaris 1597 Acts IV 130/2.
Onlie … to actuell prechearis and ministeris in the kirk 1667 Laing MSS. I 357.
About the last indulgence or connivance for pretchers to be in parishes(b) 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xlii 112.
Four parische kirkis to ane preicheir, Quhairas ane only kirk wald craif Four preichouris rather for to haif a1578 Pitsc. II 62/13.
That thow hes beine ane preicher so lang 1582 Cal. Sc. P. VI 129.
[To] putt hand in sum of the ministeris or preitchearis 1596 Dalr. II 397/1.
Sum notable clattireris, quha … namet thame selfes preicheris Ib. I 268/10. 1624 Misc. Maitl. C. III 497.
Ane of the preitcheres of the Frenche church in Lundoun 1627 Rep. Parishes 86.
Be Mr. Johne Aird preichar at Newbottill 1638 Dumbarton B. Rec. 55.
Not wordie to weir the coat and name of a preicher c1650 Spalding I 278.
This preichar exhortit the auditouris by many persuasionis Ib. II 8.
To be preicheris and ministeris of the said brughe Ib. 472.(c) c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. xxiii 3 marg.
Quhenn preacheris teachis nocht Goddis law 15.. Clar. ii 288.
I winit ȝe had beine ane knicht, And ȝe ane preacher ar becumin richt 1558-66 Knox II 362.
Preachearis 1600-1610 Melvill 82.
Bot when he began to speak he movit sic attention as it haid bein to a preatcher 1616–17 Sc. N. & Q. V 1.
Preacher to the navie and fleit of the … East India Company 1638 Baillie I 122. 1639 Fugitive Poetry II xiv 3/51.
Divyde these ruleing elders and the preachers 1689 Leven & Melv. P. 106.
Neither preacher nor laick who do not pray for the establishing of his throne(2) 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII 39/1.
His hienes weilbelovit Maister Andro Grahame, precher of the word of God a1578 Pitsc. II 52/7.
Preichar 1610 Bk. Pasquils 10.
The preachers of humilitie 1622-6 Bisset I 9/13.
First preichare of the evangell in France 1683 Misc. Bann. C. II 292.
Mr. James Strang, somtyme preitcher of the gospell