Homilete
(Hom"i*lete) n. A homilist.
Homiletic
(Hom`i*let"ic Hom`i*let"ic*al) a. [Gr. : cf. F. homilétique. See Homily.]
1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.]
His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister.
Atterbury. 2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.
Homiletics
(Hom`i*let"ics) n. [Cf. F. homilétique.] The art of preaching; that branch of theology which
treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.
Homilist
(Hom"i*list) n. One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
Homilite
(Hom"i*lite) n. [From Gr. to be in company with.] (Min.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near
datolite in form and composition.
Homily
(Hom"i*ly) 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.]
1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.
2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
As I have heard my father
Deal out in his long homilies.
Byron. 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."
Homing
(Hom"ing) a. Home-returning; — used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Hominy
(Hom"i*ny) n. [From North American Indian auhúminea parched corn.] Maize hulled and broken,
and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]
Homish
(Hom"ish) a. Like a home or a home circle.
Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life.
E. E. Hale. Hommock
(Hom"mock) n. A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See
Hummock. Bartram.
Hommocky
(Hom"mock*y) a. Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; — said of ice.
Homo-
(Ho"mo-) A combining form from Gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common, joint.
Homocategoric
(Ho`mo*cat`e*gor"ic) a. [Homo- + categoric.] (Biol.) Belonging to the same category
of individuality; — a morphological term applied to organisms so related.
Homocentric
(Ho`mo*cen"tric) a. [Gr. : the same + center: cf. F. homocentrique.] Having the same
center.
Homocercal
(Ho`mo*cer"cal) a. [Homo- + Gr. tail.] (Zoöl.) Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical,
the vertebral column terminating near its base; — opposed to heterocercal.
Homocercy
(Ho"mo*cer`cy) n. (Zoöl.) The possession of a homocercal tail.
