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   Homily , n.; pl. Homilies . [LL. homilia, Gr.  communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr.  an assembly, fr.  same; cf.  together, and  crowd, cf.  to press: cf. F. homélie. See Same.]
   A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
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   A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
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   As I have heard my father
   Deal out in his long homilies.
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   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.”
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