Hom`i*let"ic (?), Hom`i*let"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. : cf. F. homil'etique. See Homily.]

1.

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.

2.

Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.

 

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