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sermonize, v.|ˈsɜːmənaɪz|
[f. sermon n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To deliver or compose a sermon; = preach v. 1. Chiefly depreciatory.
1635[see sermonizing vbl. n.]. 1651Jane Εικων ακλαστος 214 Its like his preachers pray and sermonize without premeditation. 1772Town & Country Mag. 35 To go and hear this black-gown lover sermonize. 1887F. W. Macdonald Life W. M. Punshon ii. 37 He sermonised with ease. 1893Jessopp Stud. Recluse vii. 229 Like a young curate sermonising.
b. To give serious exhortation, talk seriously; = preach v. 1 b. Also with it.
1753E. Moore Gamester iv. (ed. 3) 55 If they should laugh at you, fly to my Lord, and sermonize it there. 1788Burns Let. to R. Ainslie 30 June, You see how I preach. You used occasionally to sermonize too. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 204 In sailor fashion roughly sermonizing On providence and trust in Heaven. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. ii. 34 To allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
2. trans. To preach a sermon to (rare); to talk seriously or earnestly to, ‘preach’ to, ‘lecture’.
1802M. Moore Lascelles II. 60, I do not intend..to sermonize you about coquetry. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiii, I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior. 1860Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurrents II. 307 A preacher of the time of Charles II.,..being called upon to sermonize royalty. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVIII. 173/1 Fined and sermonised by the magistrates at Bow Street.
3. To ‘preach’ upon (a subject). rare.
1789Poetry in Ann. Reg. 158 To..sermonize the follies of the age.
4. To bring into a specified condition by preaching.
1768W. Livingston Let. to Bp. Landaff 15 People..may be mendicated or sermonized out of their money. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 I. 7/1 Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep. 1868Helps Realmah xiv, I should have claimativeness written, talked, educated, and sermonized down. |