homiletic
[hom-uh-let-ik]
- of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- of the nature of a homily.
- of or relating to homiletics.
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Also hom·i·let·i·cal.
Origin of homiletic
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It is a popular work, written with a practical purpose, ethical and homiletic in tone and style.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish PhilosophyIsaac Husik
Nemcova's renderings are too often diffuse and inconsequential, Kulda's dry, pedantic, and homiletic.
The Shoemaker's ApronParker Fillmore
It is a sort of Biblical hermeneutic, in which homiletic questions are also dealt with.
Other than quantitive changes are not noticed, except as provocations to homiletic discourse.
The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other EssaysThorstein Veblen
There is a poetic half, let us say a homiletic half, what we call Agada, as distinct from the legal portion called Halacha.
homiletic
homiletical
- of or relating to a homily or sermon
- of, relating to, or characteristic of homiletics
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Word Origin and History for homiletic
adj.
1640s, "of or having to do with sermons," from Late Latin homileticus, from Greek homiletikos "of conversation, affable," from homelein "associate with," from homilos (see homily).
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