sermonn.
/ˈsəːmən/, U.S. /ˈsərmən/ a. Something that is said; talk, discourse. Obsolete. to make sermon: to speak. to make (a) long sermon: to speak at great length.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun]
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the spoken word1832
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c1275 Serving Christ 53 in Old Eng. Misc. 92 Þureh his sely sermun sorewe him wes by-þouht.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9240 Arme vs swyþe, & go we doun, Wyþoute any more sarmoun!
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13494 Quat sal i sai yow lang sermun?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13245 To þe Iues..In his louing he made sermon.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1185 If hit be ueray & soth sermoun.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 40 Withoute more sermone, Thei drouhe handes, as weddynge askethe of rihte.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xvii. f. 147/1 Thayr wes na sermone amang thaym how yair army suld be arrayit.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C3v When any of you come to your confession at Tyborne, what is your last sermon that you make.
1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xxiii. sig. I3 Desired Don Infeligo with very milde sermon to bee friends with Medesimo again.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech
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α.
β. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 246 It is not nedefull that I sholde make a longe sermonde.1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. xi. 186 He ceissit nocht with sic playis, sermondis & exerciciouns..to draw þame.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11491 He said in his sermond, þat sothely the grekes Were of pepull & pouer plaintius mony.c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2025 What shuld I langer sermone off it make?
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 87 He..Nolde neuere write in none of his sermons Of swyche vnkynde abomynacions.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22219 Sant Paule þus sais in his sarmuns To þe folk of þe tessaluns.
1447 O. Bokenham Agnes in Lyvys Seyntys 189 The prefect..made hir a sermoun ful of flatery.
c1500 W. Kennedy Passion of Christ 1509 Quhilk ar þe sarmonis quhilk ȝe at oþer speir?
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. i. 1 These are the Sermons of Ieremy the sonne of Helchia the prest.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > types of satirical poem > the Satires of Horace
sermons1540
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Ij As Horace witnesseth in his .ii. boke of sermons, the .iii. Satyre.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. B2v Good Horace..I am for your Odes or your Sermons, or any thing indeede. View more context for this quotation
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 438 Again Horace in his Odes... Likewise in his Sermons.
2.
a. A discourse, usually delivered from a pulpit and based upon a text of Scripture, for the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation. to preach, †do, †make, †say a sermon.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > homily > [noun]
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of
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α.
β. c1500 God spede the Plough 62 Preching dayly Sermondys inough With good Examples full graciously.1564 in Three 15th Cent. Chron. (Camden) 130 Ye Byshope of London went to the pulpyt and prechyd a sermond.1599 in W. Kelly Notices illustr. Drama (1865) 230 [He] further said the preacher was a Liar, for that, in his sermond, he said [etc.].a1200 Vices & Virtues 35 He wisseð ðes mannes iðang..oðer ðurh haliȝe writes oðer ðurh hali sermuns.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 232 Wepe we quod þe hali mon in uitas patrum. þoa me hefde longe on him iȝeiet efter sarmun.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 20 Ine þet þou ne hest..y-hyerd his seruise ne y-zed his benes ne yhyerd sermons.
c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 81 I have to day been at youre chirche at messe, And seyd a sermoun after my symple wit.
a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 1 Here begynnes a Sermon..þe whilke teches how scrifte es to be made.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. i. 81 He herde in a sermone that was prechid that deth spareth none.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. E He comyth bod[i]ly euery yere in his chirche and doth a sermon.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxi. 38 Sermons are not the onely preaching which doth saue soules.
a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 342 Which is worse, to stay from a Sermon, or sleep at a Sermon?
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶5 The Sunday before, he had made a most incomparable sermon out of Dr. Barrow.
a1831 R. Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 263/1 Sermons not unfrequently prove popular, which consist avowedly and almost exclusively of Exhortation.
1869 M. Arnold Culture & Anarchy 29 A life of jealousy of the Establishment, disputes, tea meetings, openings of chapels, sermons.
b. As an institution connected with a particular church or pulpit or particular season.
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1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 426 The Maire and Shiref of Bristowe shall..kepe theire Aduent sermondes.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 57 Thys yere on sent Martyns day begane the sarmond at the crosse agayne.
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1877) II. 40 Allso this yeare the sermons at Whitsontyde was kept at Pawles Crosse.
1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 378 Concerning the Sermon weekly on Wednesday in Saint James Chappell in Brackley.
1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 2 Never misses the sarmant on Sundays.
c. As a written or published work.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > written or published
sermon1422
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxii. 183 I fynde In a Sermonde writte, that an extorcionere is wors than the deuyll.
1547 (title) Certain sermons, or homilies, appoynted by the Kynges Maiestie, to be declared and redde, by all persones.
1657 Crooke's Div. Char. To Rdr. sig. A 2v Certain select Sermons..licensed by the Vice-chancellor of Oxford, to be printed there.
a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 193 And Sermons are less read than Tales.
1862 J. F. Stephen Def. Rowland Williams 150 In Bishop Horsley's Sermons.
d. Without article. at, after sermon = at, after church.
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society > faith > worship > church-going > [adverb]
at, after sermona1470
a1470 W. Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 239 Whyle men were at sarmonys the Sonday aftyr noon.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxii. 49 Those places which euery day for the most part are at sermons as the flowing Sea.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 65 Immediatlie he past to the kirk, and..maid sermon as thoght he had done na sik thing.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 443 After Sermon I waited on my L: A: Bish: of Cant.
1773 A. Grant Let. 5 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 56 Kilmore, where we heard sermon, is four miles off.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 173 The young Laird of Hazlewood rides hame half the road wi' her after sermon.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 189 To march in procession to Notre-Dame, and hear sermon.
e. The discourses of Jesus and the Apostles. Sermon on the Mount, the discourse recorded in Matthew v-vii and introduced by the words ‘he went up into a mountain..and taught them, saying’.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > discourse
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > discourse > Sermon on the Mount
Sermon on the Mount1582
c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 31 He hedde i-yne þo newe laghe in one montayne and hedde i-maked þet formeste sarmun þet euerte made in erþe.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 138 Oure lord ate biginnynge of his uayre sermon zayþ þet yblyssed byeþ þe poure.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 82 Quhen he prechit the sueit sermond to thaym apone the montane.
c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 13 The serment of Petir befor the congregratioun at Jerusalem.
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Matt. v. (margin) The sermon of Christ vpon the Mount.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxii. 45 Hearers of the Apostles Sermons.
1645 H. Hammond Of Conscience (new ed.) §26 Christs improvements of the Law in the Sermon on the Mount.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xii. 339 The Sermon on the Mount is the law of perfection given to the Christian people of the world.
1897 Church Times 20 Aug. 186/4 In spite of the Sermon on the Mount, men expect a deanery or a comfortable competency to be the sequel to a life of work for God.
3. transferred and figurative.
a. A discourse (spoken or written) on a serious subject, containing instruction or exhortation. Also contemptuously, a long or tedious discourse or harangue.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > instructive discourse
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 169 Making a sermon of continencie to her. View more context for this quotation
1786 R. Burns Poems 176 Perhaps it may turn out a Sang; Perhaps, turn out a Sermon.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. (title) The Statesman's Manual..: A Lay Sermon, addressed to the higher classes of society.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xii And now let's go to business, gentlemen, and excuse this sermon.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 42 I will not repay your confidence with a sermon.
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 62 They do not make their woes the text Of sermons in the Times.
b. Something that affords instruction or example.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > parable or exemplum
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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 17 Bookes in the running brookes, Sermons in stones. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Char. Good Parson in Fables 534 His Preaching much, but more his Practice wrought; (A living Sermon of the Truths he taught).
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. † sermon while n. Obsolete
sermon book n.
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1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 9 He might meet in any sermon-book, with abundant field to forage in.
sermon-head n.
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1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Mark i. 15) These were foure of our Saviours Sermon-heads.
sermon note n.
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1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 269 He..had..taken Sermon notes by his most dextrous and incomparable faculty in short-writing.
sermon-pamphlet n.
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1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 69 Latin Sermon-Pamphlets.
sermon-style n.
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1702 in T. Brown Commendatory Verses 8 Let 'em by N——'s Sermon-stile refine Their English Prose.
sermon-time n.
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1534 Chron. in Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 163 & þer stod on a skaffold, all þe sermond tyme, þe holy maid of Kent.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 265 A Set of wicked Wretches, who were at play in Sermon-time . View more context for this quotation
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ix. 75 He always took his nap during sermon-time.
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1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iv. 546 On which date in the Sermon while.
b. Objective.
sermon-actor n.
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1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 46 The finicall goosery of your neat Sermon-actor.
sermon-borrower n.
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 106 Which the Sermon Borrower complained of to the Lender of it. View more context for this quotation
sermon-hunter n.
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1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 186 The fashionable Sermon-hunters.
sermon-hunting n.
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a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 154 Psalm-singing, sermon-hunting, ejaculating.
sermon-maker n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sermon maker, concionator.
1850 Thomson Owen's Wks. I. Life p. cvi No one..will refuse to him the praise of a great sermon-maker.
sermon-monger n.
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1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 231 These modern orthodox-juglers and sermon-mongers.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 22 I have found more Honesty [amongst the naked Indians in America],..in one Day, than amongst those Sermon-mongers in a Year.
sermon-slighter n.
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1646 J. Saltmarsh Groanes for Liberty 29 That the Parliament are Sermon sleighters.
sermon-taster n.
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1709 Female Tatler No. 7/3 A Sett o' Gentlemen..that are call'd Sermon-Tasters, they peep in at twenty different Churches in a Service.
sermon-writer n.
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1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings (1790) I. xxxviii. 329 The quaintness of the old sermon writers.
c. Adverbial.† sermon-trodden adj. Obsolete
sermon-goer n.
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1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 578 Hypocrites, dissemblers, holy brethren, sermon-goers, Puritans.
sermon-proof adj.
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a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 219 It is a fearfull obduration, to be Sermon-proofe.
1769 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 367 I am afraid many of them are sermon-proof.
sermon-shaken adj.
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a1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1657) 364 Sometimes a man is Sermon-shaken, and his heart begins to tremble.
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1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xiii. 19) People are now so Sermon-trodden..that their hearts..grow hard by the Word.
sermon-wise adv.
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1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 378 That it was a Catechizing Sermon-wise, and as bad as preaching.
1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. 423 The first head of his argument, which he divided sermon-wise.
C2. † sermon-prayer n. Obsolete a prayer said by the preacher before his sermon.† sermon-sick n. Obsolete temporarily ‘upset’ by the hearing of a sermon.
sermon-bell n. a bell rung to give notice of a sermon.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > homily > [noun] > bell indicating
sermon-bell1646
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > bell > [noun] > to give notice of sermon
sermon-bell1646
1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John i. 41 Do the office of the sermon-bell at least, we know not what God may there do for them.
1687 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 255 They shall..ring the great bell for the Searmond bell.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 57 Of them not one Shall court our view, on the sepulchral stone;..Or keep the Sexton from the sermon-bell.
sermon case n. a cover for the protection of a sermon in manuscript.
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > binder for unbound periodicals, etc.
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ring binder1906
1853 Hodson's Booksellers' Directory Advt. Sermon Cases, Black Roan, 2s.
sermon class n. a class for instruction in preaching sermons.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > class for instruction in
sermon class1847
1847 Carus Life C. Simeon iv. 62 He would..encourage the least hopeful of his sermon-class by telling them, that with his example before them none need despair.
sermon paper n. writing paper of foolscap 4to size.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size
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antiquarian1815
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Albert1859
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Albert notepaper1881
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duchess1923
half-imperial-
1855 Hodson's Booksellers' Directory Advt. Ralph's Sermon Paper.
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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > at sermon
pulpit prayer1619
sermon-prayer1637
long prayer1796
prone1912
1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 161 If Sermon-prayers shall bee used as libels.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [adjective] > of nature of sudden access > suffering on hearing sermon
sermon-sick1607
1607 S. Hieron Three Serm. iii. 81 Many may be said to be sermon-sicke, as there are some said to bee sea-sicke.
sermon-sickness n.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > [noun]
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > sudden access of > on hearing a sermon
sermon-sicknessa1665
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) ii. 38 That which some call a Sermon-sickness, when the Conscience of a man is only troubled..with the dreadful concernment of the things he hears.
sermon-week n. Scottish the week passed in preparation for receiving the Sacrament.
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1794 W. Scott Let. Oct.–Nov. (1932) I. 38 This being Sermon week..we are looking very religious & very sour at home.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sermonv.
/ˈsəːmən/, U.S. /ˈsərmən/ rare in modern use.1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. 185 He once..gathered energy to sermon me upon the subject of over-curiosity.† 3. intransitive. To speak (of a thing). Obsolete.† 4. transitive. To speak, utter, declare. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To preach to (a person). literal and figurative.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)]
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c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Þis monne me mei sermonen mid godes worde.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Þes ilke Mon is strong to sermonen.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 179 Come sermon me no further. View more context for this quotation
2. intransitive.† a. To preach (of a thing).
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c1275 Sinners Beware 161 in Old Eng. Misc. 77 Þeos prude leuedies..Nulleþ here sermonye Of none gode þinge.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 466/158 Crist hire hauede a-boute i-sent to sarmoni and to preche.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1829 (MED) Þai for-soke his sermoning And toke his word al til hething.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21123 [M]atheu, a-postil and wangeliste,..For sarmoning o gods word, Men sais he stiked was wit suord.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19320 ‘Þe men þat yee did in prisun’, He said, ‘in temple þai sermon’.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xxvii. 18 Sermonynge and prechinge maketh men many times leue sinne.
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 323 The divelish hypocrisy hath been..vanquished..both by reasoning, sermoning and writing.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 5 Quaint Sermonings interlin'd with barbarous Latin.
1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee Ep. to Rdr. sig. b2 To break out, unto preaching & sermoning in the pulpits of others.
b. To preach (at a person).
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)]
bodea1000
sermonc1175
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society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > preach to or at
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1819 J. Keats King Stephen i. iv. 16 I would be..Spoken to in clear, plain, and open terms, Not side-ways sermon'd at.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6955 Seynt Ihon to Troyle bygan to sermun with ensamples of gode resun.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 551 What nedeth it to sermone of it more?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18666 Wit þam he lenged four[ti] dais, And sermon[d][Gött. sarmoned]..Of heuen blis.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xciii. 109 Whan þe olde hadde þus spoken, and sermowned of hire craft.
c1440 York Myst. xxx. 302 And Þerfore sermones you no more.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iv. 16/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I You sermon to vs of a dungeon appointed for offenders and miscredentes.
1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 25 And when Saul came himselfe, hee sermoned in such sort.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. viii. 12 And me sermounende manye thingis [L. me sermocinante].
1590 E. Spenser Let. to Sir W. Raleigh in Faerie Queene sig. Ppv Good discipline deliuered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large.
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