sermonize
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ser′mon·ize intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Sermonized; present participle & verbal noun Sermonizing.]
1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
2. To inculcate rigid rules. rare Chesterfield.
Ser′mon·ize transitive verb
To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons. rare
Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep?— Walter S. Landor
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54