SERMON
\sˈɜːmən], \sˈɜːmən], \s_ˈɜː_m_ə_n]\
Definitions of SERMON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
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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.
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To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
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To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
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To tutor; to lecture.
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Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; - often in a depreciatory sense.
By Oddity Software
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A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
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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.
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To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
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To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
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To tutor; to lecture.
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Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; - often in a depreciatory sense.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A discourse delivered by a clergyman or licentiate from a pulpit, generally on a text selected from Scripture; any serious exhortation.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A discourse delivered in public for the purpose of religious instruction, and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture-classified as extempore addresses and written discourses read from the manuscript or delivered from memory; a printed religious discourse; -hence, a serious address; a set exhortation or reproof.
