homiletics

Noun homiletics has 2 senses

• homiletics(n = noun.cognition) - the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies;
is a kind of divinity, theology
Derived form adjective homiletical₁

• homiletics(n = noun.cognition) - the art of preaching;
is a kind of art, artistry, prowess

homiletics

So skilled the parson was in homiletics
That all his normal purges and emetics
To medicine the spirit were compounded
With a most just discrimination founded
Upon a rigorous examination
Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration.
Then, having diagnosed each one's condition,
His scriptural specifics this physician
Administered -- his pills so efficacious
And pukes of disposition so vivacious
That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam
Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em.
But Slander's tongue -- itself all coated -- uttered
Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered
That in the case of patients having money
The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey.
_Biography of Bishop Potter_