sermonize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
    preachify; moralize; moralise; sermonise.
    • This man always sermonizes

WordNet

Ser"mon*ize intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Sermonized ; present participle & verbal noun Sermonizing
Definitions
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
  2. To inculcate rigid rules. R. Chesterfield.
Ser"mon*ize transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons. R.
    Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep? Landor.

Webster 1913