Word Meanings - HOMILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron.

Additional info about word: HOMILY

1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOMILY)

• Lesson
• Precept
• warning
• instruction
• lecture
• homily
• information

Related words: (words related to HOMILY)

• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• HOMILY
  1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• PRECEPTORY
  Preceptive. "A law preceptory." Anderson .
• PRECEPTOR
  1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
• PRECEPTIVE
  Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• LECTURER
  One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
• 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.
• WARN
  To refuse. Chaucer.
• PRECEPT
  A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill. Syn. -- Commandment; injunction; mandate; law; rule; direction; principle; maxim. See Doctrine. (more info) beforehand, to instruct, teach; prae before + capere to take: cf. F. 1. Any
• LESSON
  1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. 2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept,
• WARNINGLY
  In a warning manner.
• LECTURE
  A rehearsal of a lesson. (more info) 1. The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. 2. A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with
• WARNING
  Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
• WARNER
  One who warns; an admonisher.
• PRECEPTION
  A precept. Bp. Hall.
• LECTURESHIP
  The office of a lecturer.
• PRECEPTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a preceptor.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• BELECTURE
  To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
• DISWARN
  To dissuade from by previous warning.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• AWARN
  To warn. Spenser.