[f. FIELD sb. + PREACHING.] The practice of preaching in the open air; an instance of this.
1739. Wesley, Wks. (1872), I. 185. In the evening (Wr. Whitefield being gone) I begun expounding our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, (one pretty remarkable precedent of field-preaching, though I suppose there were churches at that time also).
1814. Scott, Wav., xxxv. ‘And have you, sir,’ said the Major, ‘when the rebels are about to spread themselves through this country, actually left a great part of your command at a field-preaching!’
1882. J. Taylor, The Scottish Covenanters, 72. These field-preachings, at first, were peaceable; the worshippers came to them without arms, and at the close of the services they quietly dispersed, and returned to their homes.
