homilist
(ˈhɒmɪlɪst)
[f. homily + -ist.]
One who writes or delivers homilies, or hortatory sermons; a preacher.
| 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady iv. i, To this good homilist I have been ever stubborn, which God forgive me for and mend my manners. 1642 Hales Schism 7 What if the Homilist have Preached, or delivered any Doctrine, of the Truth of which we are not well perswaded? 1849 Rock Ch. of Fathers I. i. 22 We have the testimony of the homilist ælfric. 1882 Farrar in Contemp. Rev. XLII. 807 Among the classic homilists of the English Church. |
Hence homiˈlistical a., characteristic of a homilist.
| 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. Eng. 621 Armed..onely for the preaching or Homilisticall flourishes of a Pulpit. |