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Homiletical   Listen
adjective
Homiletical, Homiletic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. (R.) "His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister."
2.
Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.






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"Homiletical" Quotes from Famous Books



... sermon was not eloquent. It was neither learned nor profound. It gave no evidence of any great acquaintance with modern thought. There was absolutely no attempt at exegesis. Indeed, the discourse would have failed to satisfy most of those elementary canons upon which the homiletical professors lay such stress. Yet, one great excellence it had, which, to its simple-minded auditors, more than atoned for all its many imperfections:—It was effective; it was successful. We came away thanking God for the testimony we ...
— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson

... Bourdaloue, in his sermons, has always the air of a man seriously intent on producing practical results. There are no false motions. Every swaying of the preacher's weapon is a blow, and every blow is a hit. There is hardly another example in homiletic literature of such compactness, such solidity, such logical consecutiveness, such cogency, such freedom from surplusage. Tare and tret are excluded. Every thing counts. You meet with two or three adjectives, and you at first naturally assume, that, after the usual manner of homilists, Bourdaloue ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... at all," he said cheerily. "In a mere lay reader, a slight laxity is allowable. You understand, of course, that you are expressly restricted from the pulpit. You will have to read the lessons, conduct the service, and may address the congregation upon matters not homiletic nor doctrinal; preaching and actual entry into the pulpit are defended. But I see excellent possibility in you. Perform the duties punctually in this very lowly office, and high ranks of service in the church militant will ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley



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