SERMONING
Etymology 1
Noun
sermoning (plural sermonings)
(obsolete) The act of discoursing; instruction; preaching.
Etymology 2
Verb
sermoning
present participle of sermon
Source: Wiktionary
Ser"mon*ing, n.
Definition: The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
SERMON
Ser"mon, n. Etym: [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, -
onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join,
connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.]
1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of
Chaucer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a
clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on
some text or passage of Scripture.
This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books
in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.
Shak.
His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon
of the truths he taught. Dryden.
3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an
exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Ser"mon, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.]
Definition: To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
What needeth it to sermon of it more Chaucer.
Ser"mon, v. t.
1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition