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Definition of Sermons
1. sermon [n] - See also: sermon
Medical Definition of Sermons
1. Discourses for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy, as part of a religious service. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sermons
Literary usage of Sermons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Chapman, JW And Judas Iscariot. with other evangelistic sermons. *50c. '10.
Do- ran. ... Go ye Into all the world: sermons on foreign missions. 85o. '10. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"No critical and chronological edition of Bossuet's complete works has been made
as yet, only the sermons having been edited (in a most scientific manner) by ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"His published sermons served also for the private edification of many who were not
... Not less valuable were the catechetical sermons, while the sermons to ..."
4. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"Still, the great body of medieval sermons is not interesting reading, especially
in the condensed and desiccated form in which most of them have come down ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"Eighteen sermons, whereof Fifteen [were] preached before the King, the rest upon
publick ... [Fell's Preface to the Fort y sermons, 1684; Wood's At heute ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"After his death appeared four volumes of sermons (1768), with a preface by Amory,
... [Preface to sermons by Amory; Prot. Diss. Mag. i. 217. ..."
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