homilies n. 训诫;说教(homily的复数)
- the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies.
研究布道和说教的神学分支。 - His message to politicians echoes the simple homilies his grandfather taught him.Do your job.
他给政客的咨文好似效仿他的外祖父当年给他的简单家训:干好你的活计! - The Clementine Homilies, an early Christian document, also taught many incarnations of Jesus.
一份早期基督教文件《克莱门汀布道》也提到耶稣多次再生。
Homily \Hom"i*ly\, n.; pl. {Homilies}. [LL. homilia, Gr. ?
communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. ? an assembly, fr.
? same; cf. ? together, and ? crowd, cf. ? to press: cf. F.
hom['e]lie. See {Same}.]
1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a
serious discourse. --Shak.
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. --Byron.
{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.''