-ˌnīz verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Usage: see -ize
Etymology: sermon (I) + -ize
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to compose, write, or deliver a sermon
listen attentively to the sermonizing of the bishop — H.E.Rollins
b. : to discourse didactically or dogmatically
cannot even enjoy a sunny day without sermonizing — Times Literary Supplement
2. : to inculcate rigid rules : lecture , admonish
the film attempts neither to dramatize nor sermonize — Arthur Knight
transitive verb
1. : to preach or discourse to or on : address at length in a didactic and solemn manner
tries to sermonize the government — Isaac Deutscher
happily does not sermonize the gospel of work — Herbert Feinstein
2. : to force or put by preaching to
sermonize one into energy