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† sermocination Obs.
Also 7 cerm-.
[ad. L. sermōcinātiōn-em, n. of action f. sermōcinārī to sermocinate.]
1. Talk, conversation; a discourse, sermon.
1514Fruyte of Redempcyon (W. de W.) A iij b, Every oryson, every tonge, and sermocynacyon. 1623Cockeram ii, A Talking together... Cermocination. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 53 Barrow and Greenwood were possessed with a spirit of railing and scoffing, terming..preaching preachment and sermocination. 1646Bp. Hall Three Tract., Free Prisoner §2 No sermocinations of Ironmongers, Feltmakers, Coblers. 1662Phillips Pref., Whatever kind of sermocination is generally used in any Country, may very properly be termed a Language. 1674Sir W. Petty Disc. Royal Soc. Ep. Ded., Falsity..cannot be rectified by any sermocinations.
2. Rhet. A form of prosopopœia in which the speaker, having made a remark or put a question, immediately answers it.
1753Chambers's Cycl. Supp., Sermocination,..in rhetoric, denotes discourse in general, whether held by a person alone, or in company, and is the same with what is called dialogism.
So † sermocinator, a talker, speaker; † sermocinatrix, a female talker.
1623Cockeram i, Sermocinator, hee which talketh. Ibid., Cermocinatrix, shee that instructed to speake. Ibid., Sermocinatrix, she which talketh. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 214 These obstreperous Sermocinators..make easie impressions upon the minds of the vulgar. 1657[W. Sancroft] Mod. Policies iv. (ed. 7) D 5 b, These Clancular Sermocinators bear as great sway in popular minds..as the Loyolists do. |