homiletical

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The function of Hervey's "Meditations in a Flower Garden," or, Flavel's "Husbandry Spiritualized," is mainly homiletical.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

Nor did he find an easy mode of preparation for the pulpit by giving his theological lectures a homiletical form.

From Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by Purves, George Tybout

This was the homiletical method which Zeal of the Land used in his discourse at the fair.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Some months later, however, at the bottom of the homiletical barrel, he found a few old acquaintances, in threadbare and tattered guise, smiling reproachfully out of the dust of an undeserved oblivion.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

It is unmethodical and badly digested, homiletical in style, and abounding in biblical quotations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various