Word Meanings - PREACHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
Related words: (words related to PREACHMENT)
- SERMONEER
A sermonizer. B. Jonson. - SERMONIZE
1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield. - HARANGUE
A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton. - SERMONING
The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer. - SERMONET
A short sermon. - SERMONISH
Resembling a sermon. - HARANGUEFUL
Full of harangue. - SERMONIC; SERMONICAL
Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox. - SERMONIZER
One who sermonizes. - RELIGIOUS
1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids - RELIGIOUSLY
In a religious manner. Drayton. - RELIGIOUSNESS
The quality of being religious. - SERMON
onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. Chaucer. 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of - SERMONER
A preacher; a sermonizer. Thackeray. - SERMONIST
See SERMONIZER - HARANGUER
One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden. - IRRELIGIOUS
1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious - IRRELIGIOUSNESS
The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness. - UNRELIGIOUS
Irreligious. Wordsworth. - IRRELIGIOUSLY
In an irreligious manner.