Homily
Homily , noun
[Late Latin homilia, Greek {not transcribed} communion, assembly, converse, sermon, from {not transcribed} an assembly, from {not transcribed} same; compare {not transcribed} together, and {not transcribed} crowd, compare {not transcribed} to press: compare French homélie. See Same.]
1.
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. — Shakespeare
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.
Collocations (1)
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.”