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s 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.

A sermonizer. B. Jonson.

A preacher; a sermonizer. [Derogative or Jocose.] Thackeray.

A short sermon. [Written also sermonette.]

Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. [R.] "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox.

The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Resembling a sermon. [R.]

See Sermonizer.

To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.

One who sermonizes.

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.…

A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

nates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

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

short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

Idle talk; silly prattle. There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.

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

Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient. By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. L. Andrews.

To interrupt; -- with in or out. This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. Latimer.