Word Meanings - SERMONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.

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• SERMONEER
  A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• SERMONIZE
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• SERMONING
  The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
• SERMONET
  A short sermon.
• SERMONISH
  Resembling a sermon.
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• RIGIDULOUS
  Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• PREACHMENT
  A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
• 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.
• COMPOSED
  Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.
• PREACHIFY
  To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.
• FRIGIDARIUM
  The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.