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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Homily

Hom′i·ly, n.; pl. Homilies (#). [LL. homilia, Gr. ? communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. ὅμιλος an assembly, fr. ὁμός same; cf. ὁμοῦ together, and ἴλη a crowd, cf. ? to press: cf. F. homélie. See Same.] 1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.

2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron.

Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; — both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article.