Meanings of preachify in English

What would a historian be who, instead of making researches, would moralise?

But it is not the object of this book to moralise.

To moralise this story, Virgil is the Apollo who has this dispensing power.

It went out of fashion, says Chuang Tzŭ, when people began to moralise.

A third person, whose vanity was not concerned, might moralise thus-

I could volubly sermonize; only it should be a young maid to listen.

You going to use a lectern and sermonize or do the walkabout talk-show act?

But it was impossible to quiet Savéliitch when once he had begun to sermonize.

You might sit and sermonize just as well, mightn't you?

Heaven knows I have no right to sermonize; but, at least, I never shammed anything.

But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.

Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise?

You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.

People stood side by side for hours, singing hymns and listening to the pastor, Paul Enenche, sermonise on the dangers of plagues.

Any man able to sermonise better, or rhapsodise more cheaply, or beat the bush of divinity more energetically, can occupy the pulpit tomorrow.