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Definitions for: Sermon
[n] a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him"
[n] an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
Webster (1913) Definition: Ser"mon, n. [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.
Ser"mon, v. i. [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.
Ser"mon, v. t.
1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] --Shak.
Synonyms: discourse, preaching
See Also: address, baccalaureate, evangelism, homily, kerugma, kerygma, lecture, preachment, Sermon on the Mount, speech, talking to
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