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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Homily \Hom"i*ly\, n.; pl {Homilies}. [LL. homilia Gr ?
communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr ? an assembly, fr
? same cf ? together, and ? crowd, cf ? to press: cf F.
hom['e]lie. 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.''
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