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Sermon :: Sermon (n.) 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..

Prolix :: Prolix (a.) Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon..

Application :: Application (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry..

Pericope :: Pericope (n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon..

Sermonize :: Sermonize (v. i.) To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.

Sermonical :: Sermonical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic..

Sermon :: Sermon (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

Homily :: Homily (n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

Sermon :: Sermon (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon..

Sermon :: Sermon (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense..

Preachment :: Preachment (n.) A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively.

Desk :: Desk (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession..

Sermonizer :: Sermonizer (n.) One who sermonizes.

Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..

Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues..

Bidding Prayer :: Bidding prayer () The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons..

Sermonize :: Sermonize (v. t.) To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.

Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon..

Sermoneer :: Sermoneer (n.) A sermonizer.

Skeleton :: Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon..

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