English-Thai Dictionary

homily

N การ เทศนา  ธรรม เทศนา  preachment sermon kan-tad-sa-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOMILY

n.[Gr. to converse in company, a company or assembly. ] A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; or a plain, familiar discourse on some subject of religion, such as an instructor would deliver to his pupils, or a father to his children.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOMILY

Hom "i *ly, n.; pl. Homilies. Etym: [LL. homilia, Gr. homélie. See Same. ]

 

1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.

 

2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI. , and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine. "

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

homily

hom i ly |ˈhäməlē ˈhɑməli | ▶noun ( pl. homilies ) a religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction; a sermon. • a tedious moralizing discourse: she delivered her homily about the need for patience. DERIVATIVES hom i list |-list |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin homilia, from Greek, ‘discourse, conversation ’ (in ecclesiastical use, ‘sermon ’), from homilos ‘crowd. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

homily

homily |ˈhɒmɪli | ▶noun ( pl. homilies ) a religious discourse which is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction. • a tedious moralizing lecture: she delivered her homily about the need for patience. DERIVATIVES homilist noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin homilia, from Greek, ‘discourse, conversation ’ (in ecclesiastical use, ‘sermon ’), from homilos ‘crowd ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

homily

homily noun a guest preacher delivered today's homily: sermon, lecture, discourse, address, lesson, talk, speech, oration.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

homily

homily noun she delivered her homily about the need for patience: sermon, lecture, discourse, address, lesson, talk, speech, oration, declamation; preaching, teaching; informal spiel; rare peroration, allocution, postil.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

homily

hom i ly /hɑ́m (ə )li |hɔ́m -/名詞 複 -lies C ｟かたく ｠1 ｟しばしば非難して ｠お説教, 訓戒, 小言 (sermon ).2 ｟文 ｠(キリスト教会の )説教 .