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Webster 1913 Edition
Sermonize
Ser′mon-ize
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sermonized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sermonizing
.] 1.
To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
2.
To inculcate rigid rules.
[R.]
Chesterfield.
Ser′mon-ize
,Verb.
T.
To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.
[R.]
Which of us shall sing or
sermonize
the other fast asleep? Landor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sermonize
SER'MONIZE
,Verb.
I.
1. To preach.
2. To inculate rigid rules.
3. To make sermons; to compose or write a sermons or sermons. [This is the sense in which the verb is generally used in the U. States.]