book of homilies

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

. 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.”

From the entry Homily.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54