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Homiletical   Listen
adjective
Homiletical, Homiletic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. (R.) "His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister."
2.
Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.





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"Homiletical" Quotes from Famous Books



... sermons, has always the air of a man seriously intent on producing practical results. There are no false motions. Every swaying of the preacher's weapon is a blow, and every blow is a hit. There is hardly another example in homiletic literature of such compactness, such solidity, such logical consecutiveness, such cogency, such freedom from surplusage. Tare and tret are excluded. Every thing counts. You meet with two or three adjectives, and you at first naturally assume, that, after the usual manner ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson


Words linked to "Homiletical" :   homiletic, homiletics


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