Found 3 items, similar to sermon.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: sermon ceramah, riwayat
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sermon sermon n 1: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) [syn: discourse, preaching] 2: a moralistic rebuke; “your preaching is wasted on him” [syn: preaching]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sermon Sermon \Ser"mon\, n. [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, -onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.] 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. --Shak. [1913 Webster] His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. [1913 Webster] Sermon \Ser"mon\, v. i. [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.] To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster] What needeth it to sermon of it more? --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Sermon \Ser"mon\, v. t. 1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]