Definition
| • | A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. |
| • | To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. |
| • | To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. |
| • | To tutor; to lecture. |
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