'Sermon' definitions:
Definition of 'sermon'
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Definition of 'Sermon'
From: GCIDE
- Sermon \Ser"mon\, v. t.
- 1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sermon'
From: GCIDE
- Sermon \Ser"mon\, n. [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, -onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.]
- 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. [1913 Webster]
- This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sermon'
From: GCIDE
- Sermon \Ser"mon\, v. i. [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.] To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
- What needeth it to sermon of it more? --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sermon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- address,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- assignment,
- castigation,
- chalk talk,
- chastisement,
- chiding,
- correction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- dressing-down,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- instruction,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- objurgation,
- preach,
- preachification,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prelection,
- rating,
- rebuke,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious discourse,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- reprehension,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobation,
- reproof,
- reproval,
- scolding,
- sermonette,
- sermonizing,
- set task,
- skull session,
- spanking,
- speech,
- talk,
- talking-to,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- travelogue,
- upbraiding