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Homily

A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

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Discourse 76% connected

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…

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Preaching 76% connected

of Preach

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Sermon 76% connected

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

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Homiletic 74% connected

Alt. of Homiletical

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Homiletic 74% connected

Alt. of Homiletical

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Homiletical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

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Homiletical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

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Preachment 92% connected

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively.

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deixis noun · 78% connection

the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communicatio…

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Illation noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Inference noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Speech act noun · 78% connection

the use of language to perform some act

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Application noun · 78% connection

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied t…

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Asper noun · 78% connection

The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h…

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Audience noun · 78% connection

the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service; "every artist needs an audi…

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Baccalaureate noun · 78% connection

A baccalaureate sermon.

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Beatitude noun · 78% connection

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedn…

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Bidding prayer unknown · 78% connection

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

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Centurial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.

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Compose verb · 78% connection

To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to i…

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Dash verb · 78% connection

To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

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Descant verb · 78% connection

To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

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Desk noun · 78% connection

A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the ser…

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Digression noun · 78% connection

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main de…

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for…

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Head noun · 78% connection

A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.

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Judgement in rem noun · 78% connection

a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)

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Judgment in rem noun · 78% connection

a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)

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Lecture noun · 78% connection

A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, i…

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Legend noun · 78% connection

That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the re…

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