sermonize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SER'MONIZE, verb intransitive 1. To preach. 2. To inculate rigid rules. 3. To make sermons; to compose or write a sermons or sermons. [This is the sense in which the verb is generally used in the U. States.]
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