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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Sermonize

· Ser·mon·ize · IPA
01 v. i. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
imp. & p. p. Sermonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sermonizing
  1. 1.
    To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
  2. 2.
    To inculcate rigid rules.[R.]
02 v. t. To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.
  1. 1.
    To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.[R.]
    “Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep?” — Landor.