The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homiletic \Hom`i*let"ic\, Homiletical \Hom`i*let"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. homil['e]tique. See Homily.]
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Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.]
His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister.
--Atterbury. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable. 2 Of or relating to homiletics; homiletic; hortatory.
WordNet
Usage examples of "homiletical".
Foot delivered the terrible news at such numbing length and so laden down with homiletical baggage as to beat his auditors into submission before the essential point of what he was saying had even penetrated their minds.
In his own Grace Abounding there are meditations of terror quite worthy to stand beside the most terrible things of that kind that ever were written, as also in many others of our author's dramatical and homiletical books.