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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies;

2. the art of preaching;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Homiletics \Hom`i*let"ics\, n. [Cf. F. homil['e]tique.] The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

homiletics n 1: the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies 2: the art of preaching
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. 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_