[See TUB sb. 4.] One who preaches from a ‘tub’ (TUB sb. 4); a dissenting preacher or minister (contemptuous). So Tub-preaching sb. and a.

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1643.  xiv Art. of Treason exhib. I. Pennington, 5. Stephan Evans, alias Prince of Morocco, Knight of the Burning Pestle, Salter, and Tub-preacher, on Snow Hill.

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1661.  J. Davies, Civ. Warres, xxxii. 52. Tub-Preachings and Conventicle-Lectures were listened to as to Oracles.

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a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1693), 165. Your lawful Ministers … to whom … you do not resort, but to Tub-preachers in Conventicles.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, IV. 14. The Tub-preaching Saint was so zealous a Blade.

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1899.  S. R. Gardiner, Cromwell, 48. Those who looked down with scorn on the vagaries of the tub-preacher.

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