 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sermon
noun
1: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a
church service) [syn: {discourse}, {preaching}]
2: a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him" [syn:
{preaching}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sermon \Ser"mon\, noun [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.
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.
This our life exempt from public haunts
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in everything. --Shak.
His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought,
A living sermon of the truths he taught. --Dryden.
3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or
duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a
depreciatory sense.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sermon \Ser"mon\, verb (used without an object) [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to
lecture one.]
To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
[Obs.] --Holinshed.
What needeth it to sermon of it more? --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sermon \Ser"mon\, verb (used with an object)
1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sermon":
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
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