sermonとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sarmon (dialectal)

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.mən/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.mən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

名詞

sermon (複数形 sermons)

1. Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

動詞

sermon (三人称単数 現在形 sermons, 現在分詞 sermoning, 過去形および過去分詞形 sermoned)

2. (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
   • January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh

     To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises

3. (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:

     Come, sermon me no further.

派生語

参照

• sermon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

関連する語

アナグラム

• Menors, Merson, merons, moners, mornes, somner