Definition of sermon
- n. - A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons
of Chaucer.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or
duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory
sense.
- v. i. - To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
- v. t. - To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
- v. t. - To tutor; to lecture.