| 释义 |
homiletic, a. and n.|hɒmɪˈlɛtɪk|
Also 7 homilitick.
[ad. Gr. ὁµῑλητικός affable, conversable, f. ὁµῑλητός, vbl. adj. of ὁµῑλέειν to consort with, hold converse with, f. ὅµῑλος assembled crowd, throng. Cf. F. homilétique.]
A. adj. Of the nature of or characteristic of a homily; by way of a homily. homiletic divinity or homiletic theology = Homiletics: see B. 1.
1644Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. C iv, Polemick and Homilitick Divinity. 1846Trench Mirac. xxx. (1862) 432 Many admirable homiletic applications of this portion of the history have been made. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon v. 76 The homiletic use of the apostles' writings.
B. n. usu. in pl. homiletics [see -ics, and cf. Gr. ἡ ὁµῑλητική the art of conversation; also Ger. homiletik].
1. The art of preaching; sacred rhetoric.
1830Pusey Histor. Enq. II. 126 If..the teaching of Homiletic were confined to the multiplication of methods for laying out a discourse [etc.]. 1846Worcester cites Brit. Crit. for Homiletics. 1858Sat. Rev. V. 288/1 We proceed to an analysis of this remarkable specimen of Christian homiletics. 1865D. P. Kidder (title) Treatise on Homiletics. Designed to illustrate the true Theory and Practice of Preaching the Gospel. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1013 His [Hyperius'] work De Formandis Concionibus Sacris..distinguishes him..as the founder of the science of homiletics.
2. pl. Homiletical works; homilies. rare.
1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vii. (1872) 221 Reading its liturgies, homiletics, and excellent old moral horn-books. |