serm-, sermo- +

The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.

Someone who makes sermons or speeches.

1. A talk on a religious or moral subject given by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
2. A long and tedious talk; especially, one telling someone how or how not to behave.
3. An often lengthy and tedious speech of reproof or exhortation.
4. Etymology: from Anglo-French sermun, Old French sermon, from Latin sermonem and sermo, "discourse, speech, talk"; originally, "a stringing together of words"; related to serere, "to join".

Having the nature or style of a sermon; with depreciatory force.

1 A religious discourse delivered in public usually by a clergyman as a part of a worship service.
2 A speech on conduct or duty.

Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.

1. To give someone a long tedious talk about how or how not to behave.
2. To speak as if delivering a sermon; to express moral judgments.
3. To deliver or to compose a sermon; to preach.

1. Someone who delivers or composes a sermon or preaches.
2. Anyone who gives exhortations to others or who lectures.

1. Speaking as if delivering a sermon.
2. Expressing moral judgments.

A discourse delivered by Jesus to the disciples and others, containing the Beatitudes and important fundamentals of Christian teaching. Matt. 5–7; Luke 6:20–49.

1. Discourses for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation; especially, those based on texts of scripture and delivered by members of the clergy, as part of religious services. 2. Talks on religious or moral subjects, often based on something written from a religious text.