Word Meanings - SERMONISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a sermon.

Related words: (words related to SERMONISH)

• SERMONEER
  A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
• SERMONIZE
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
• SERMONING
  The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
• SERMONET
  A short sermon.
• SERMONISH
  Resembling a sermon.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SERMONIC; SERMONICAL
  Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox.
• SERMONIZER
  One who sermonizes.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• SERMON
  onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. Chaucer. 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SERMONER
  A preacher; a sermonizer. Thackeray.
• SERMONIST
  See SERMONIZER
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.