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Ser"mon (?), n. [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, -onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.] 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
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This our life exempt from public haunts
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak.
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His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought,
A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.
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3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
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Ser"mon, v. i. [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.] To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.] Holinshed.
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What needeth it to sermon of it more? Chaucer.
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Ser"mon, v. t. 1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] Spenser.
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2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] Shak.
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