Dictionary entry

Homiletic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Hom′i‐let″ic (?), Hom′i‐let″ic‐al (?), } a. [Gr. �: cf. F. homilétique. See Homily.] 1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.