HOMILY
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Hom"i*ly (?), n.; pl. Homilies (#). [LL. homilia, Gr. &unr_; communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. &unr_; an assembly, fr. &unr_; same; cf. &unr_; together, and &unr_; crowd, cf. &unr_; to press: cf. F. homélie. See Same.] 1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.
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2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
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As I have heard my father
Deal out in his long homilies.
Byron.
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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.”
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