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sermon 音标拼音: [s'ɚmən] n. 说教,训诫,布道 说教,训诫,布道 sermon n 1: an address of a religious nature ( usually delivered during a church service) [ synonym: { sermon}, { discourse}, { preaching}] 2: a moralistic rebuke; " your preaching is wasted on him" [ synonym: { sermon}, { preaching}] Sermon \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one' s conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. [ 1913 Webster]
Sermon \ Ser" mon\, v. i. [ Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.] To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [ Obs.] -- Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster] What needeth it to sermon of it more? -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
Sermon \ Ser" mon\, v. t. 1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To tutor; to lecture. [ Poetic] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " sermon": address, admonishment, admonition, assignment, castigation, chalk talk, chastisement, chiding, correction, discourse, disquisition, dressing- down, exercise, exhortation, exposition, harangue, homework, homily, instruction, lecture, lecture- demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, objurgation, preach, preachification, preaching, preachment, prelection, rating, rebuke, recital, recitation, religious discourse, remonstrance, remonstration, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, scolding, sermonette, sermonizing, set task, skull session, spanking, speech, talk, talking- to, task, teaching, tirade, travelogue, upbraiding
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