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2 definitions found 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.'' From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: homily n : a sermon on a moral or religious topic [syn: {preachment}]
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