sermonizev.
/ˈsəːmənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsərməˌnaɪz/ 1.
a. intransitive. To deliver or compose a sermon; = preach v. 1. Chiefly depreciative.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (intransitive)]
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1635 [implied in: Bp. F. White Treat. Sabbath-day Ep. Ded. 14 Concerning their owne ecclesiasticall sermonizing. (at sermonizing n.)].
1651 J. Jane Εικων Ακλαστος 214 Its like his preachers pray and sermonize without premeditation.
1772 Town & Country Mag. 35 To go and hear this black-gown lover sermonize.
1887 F. W. Macdonald Life W. M. Punshon ii. 37 He sermonised with ease.
1893 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse vii. 229 Like a young curate sermonising.
b. To give serious exhortation, talk seriously; = preach v. 1b. Also with it.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > discourse or lecture
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society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (intransitive)] > preach
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1753 E. Moore Gamester (ed. 3) iv. 55 If they should laugh at you, fly to my Lord, and sermonize it there.
1788 R. Burns Let. 30 June (2001) I. 291 You see how I preach.—You used occasionally to sermonize too.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 12 In sailor fashion roughly sermonizing On providence and trust in Heaven.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. ii. 34 To allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
2. transitive. To preach a sermon to (rare); to talk seriously or earnestly to, ‘preach’ to, ‘lecture’.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > deliver a discourse or lecture to
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society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > preach to or at
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)]
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1802 M. Moore Lascelles II. 60 I do not intend..to sermonize you about coquetry.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 105 I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior.
1860 J. C. Byrne Undercurrents Overlooked II. 307 A preacher of the time of Charles II.,..being called upon to sermonize royalty.
1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 148 173/1 Fined and sermonised by the magistrates at Bow Street.
3. To ‘preach’ upon (a subject). rare.
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society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > preach something
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)] > upon a subject
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1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Poetry 158 To..sermonize the follies of the age.
4. To bring into a specified condition by preaching.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (transitive)] > bring into specific condition by preaching
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > deliver a discourse or lecture to > bring into a specified condition by
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1768 W. Livingston Let. Bishop Llandaff 15 People..may be mendicated or sermonized out of their money.
1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. ii. 32 [Ld. Brooke] Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep.
1868 A. Helps Realmah xiv I should have claimativeness written, talked, educated, and sermonized down.
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