Noun:

धर्मापदेश, धर्मगीत,

homily's Usage Examples:

the homily originally known as the Second Epistle of Clement (for this ascription, as for other details, see Clementine Literature).

The activity of his life left him little time for writing, but he was the author of " an anaphora, sundry letters, a creed or confession of faith, preserved in Arabic and a secondary Ethiopic translation, and a homily for the Feast of the Annunciation, also extant only in an Arabic translation" (Wright).

HOMILY, a simple religious address, less elaborate than a sermon, and confining itself to the practical exposition of some ethical topic or some passage of Scripture.

The 23rd homily, on the "grape kernel" (Is.

In his hands, as may be seen from the 19 homilies on Jeremiah that have been preserved in the Greek (and others in the Latin of Rufinus), the crude homily of his predecessors began to take a more dignified, orderly and impressive form.

In his 54th homily (tom.

So it is defined by the Church of England, in the 16th homily, on the authority of the Council of Chalcedon' and of the primitive church generally.

If this appearance be not fallacious, the obvious relation between the two superscriptions will be best explained by the supposition that the author of Jude gave currency to the existing homily (James) before composing under the pseudonym of Jude.

In this connexion the homily Of Fasting may be again referred to.

None of his sermons, however, unless we regard his book on the Lord's Prayer as a homily, has come down to us.

Synonyms:

preaching, preachment, sermon, discourse,