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Homiletic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HOMILET'IC

Homiletic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable.

2. homiletic theology, a branch of practical theology, which teaches the manner in which ministers of the gospel should adapt their discourses to the capacities of their hearers, and pursue the best methods of instructing them by their doctrines and examples. It is also called pastoral theology.

Homiletic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Homiletical

Homiletical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.

Homiletics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.