Homiletic \Hom`i*let"ic\, Homiletical \Hom`i*let"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. homil['e]tique. See {Homily}.] 1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.]
His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. --Atterbury.