Definition of Homilist. Meaning of Homilist. Synonyms of Homilist

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Definition of Homilist

Homilist
Homilist Hom"i*list, n. One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

Meaning of Homilist from wikipedia

- A homily (from Gr**** ὁμιλία, homilía) is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, giving the "public explanation of a sacred doctrine" or text...
- the Grammarian (Alfricus Grammaticus), Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist. In the view of Peter Hunter Blair, he was "a man comparable both in the...
- public preaching. One who practices or studies homiletics may be called a homilist, or more simply, a preacher. Homiletics, the art of preaching, studies...
- also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist, and hymnographer. He is venerated as a saint in both the Eastern Orthodox...
- Retrieved 5 December 2022. Whitelock "Note on the Career of Wulfstan the Homilist" p. 464 Quoted in Wormald "Wulfstan" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
- Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel OSB (c. 770 – c. 840) was a Benedictine monk of Saint-Mihiel Abbey near Verdun. He was a significant writer of homilies and commentaries...
- Homilist and Augustinian canon...
- posthumous re****tion as "victorious because of God" (in the words of the homilist Ælfric of Eynsham). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle abandoned its usual terse...
- respected writers of Anglo-Saxon prose, Ælfric and Wulfstan, were both homilists. Almost all surviving poetry is found in only one m****cript copy, but...
- Gospel immediately, but adds: "If, however, someone is to preach, the Homilist, after the Gospel has been finished, preaches, and when the sermon or moral...