Homily /(?)/

Hom·i·ly

Homily

n.

pl. Homilies

  1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.”