SERMON

vt to discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

2. sermon ·vt to tutor; to lecture.

3. sermon ·noun a discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of chaucer.

4. sermon ·vi to speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

5. sermon ·noun hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily;

— often in a depreciatory sense.

6. sermon ·noun 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.