The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. [R. & Obs.] " Mere pulpitry." Milton.
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; --
distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room;
rare now, except in a humorous sense.
The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal
equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic
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