Definition of "homiletical" [homiletical]

• Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable. (adjective)
• Of or relating to homiletics; homiletic; hortatory. (adjective)

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• "Midrashim are those called homiletical, or Hagadic, which embrace the interpretation, illustration, or expansion, in a moralizing or edifying manner, of the non-legal portions of the Hebrew Bible."
• "The words "homiletical" and "homily" suggest what they originally connoted; they are derived from the Greek word [Greek: homilia], "an assembly," and a homily was a discourse delivered to an assembly."
• "They looked at me as if I were attempting sermon suicide -- or worse, homiletical homicide Leviticus would kill our congregation."