Word Meanings - SERMONING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to SERMONING)

• DISCOURSIVE
  1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• PREACH
  cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
• PREACHMENT
  A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
• PREACHIFY
  To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• PREACHER
  1. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14. 2. One who inculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird , a toucan.
• PREACHMAN
  A preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell.
• PREACHING
  The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate
• INSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• UNPREACH
  To undo or overthrow by preaching. De Foe.