homiletical

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It seems to me clear that the chief office of the church is liturgical rather than homiletical.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

All Farkas Bethlen's homiletical energy was thrown away in Maurocordato's drawling, indifferent reproduction.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r

Their productions may be classed under the heads of biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical, and homiletical.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

There is a certain level of generality below which a cultivated sense of the proprieties in homiletical discourse will not permit a well-bred clergyman to decline in his discussion of temporal interests.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Haggada, ha-g�′da, n. a free Rabbinical homiletical commentary on the whole Old Testament, forming, together with the Halacha, the Midrash, but from its especial popularity often itself styled the Midrash—also Hagg�′dah, Ag�′dah.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various