homiletical

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητικός (homilētikós, “conversable”). Sense 2 from homiletic +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɒmɪˈlɛtɪkəl/

Adjective

homiletical (comparative more homiletical, superlative most homiletical)

  1. Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable.
  2. Of or relating to homiletics; homiletic; hortatory.
    • 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 296:
      The Talmud offers a homiletical etymology that the word AMeN is composed of the initial letters of Ayl Melekh Ne'eman.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “homiletical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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