sermocination
English
Etymology
From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.
Noun
sermocination (countable and uncountable, plural sermocinations)
- (obsolete) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Peacham to this entry?)
- (rhetoric) A form of prosopopoeia in which one answers one's own question.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sermocination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)