(n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
(v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
(v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(3) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
(4) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(5) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.
(6) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
(7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(8) • • • As I am leaving Rock Springs behind me, fiddling with the radio to find something other than pop music, Christian sermons, commercials or Christmas songs, I think back to what Alex said about his hope that Donald Trump would bring change.
(9) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(10) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
(11) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
(12) At a small store on the side of the road, young men sat at computers copying the sermons of Awlaki, the al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and other household names of the global jihad.
(13) A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has made what would be his first public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq's second-largest city, according to a video posted online on Saturday.
(14) April 2002 Police in Germany find recordings of some of his radical sermons in a home used by some of the September 11 attackers.
(15) In a sermon earlier this week, the radical cleric called for a widening of the violent insurrection in Libya, encouraging "revolutionaries" to target Bayda, the home of the government, and Tobruk, where parliament has fled to.
(16) In his Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said: “In the shadow of Brussels, with the memory of Srebrenica, hope can seem far, far away.
(17) He said: “They gave us their sermon, their speech, the why they were there.
(18) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(19) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.
(20) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
Tutor
Definition:
(n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.
(n.) A treasurer; a keeper.
(n.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
(n.) A private or public teacher.
(n.) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
(n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
(v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
(v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) "Show that you know what you are applying for and have looked at the course information published on the university's website," says Gwyn Chivers, admissions tutor at Anglia Ruskin.
(3) Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring.
(4) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(6) By contrast, there was a substantial and highly significant improvement of knowledge among women who were given the ECAC and who were also individually tutored; this difference in CK was accounted for by improvement in both PK and AK.
(7) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
(8) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
(9) It is suggested that the student, his parents and tutor should be informed about his health impairments, the degree of disability and therapeutic possibilities.
(10) An alternative is to let currently enrolled students proctor and tutor each other.
(11) We conducted a large-scale field replication study of classwide peer tutoring applied to spelling instruction (Greenwood, Delquadri, & Hall, 1984).
(12) An anonymous fashion design student at the University of Kingston says: "Our tutors have always told us not to take unpaid internships and I think they're all quite passionate about that.
(13) "I looked up tutoring online and found out about an agency specialising in student tutors, Bright Young Things (BYT).
(14) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
(15) The recent big increase in learning opportunities for general practitioners, particularly in postgraduate medical centres, has been accompanied by increasing suspicion that educational activities may not be fulfilling the aims of continuing education, and that there is dissatisfaction with existing courses.This study took place in the north-western region, and 18 clinical tutors were interviewed using a structured interview schedule.Very few of the clinical tutors were aware of the existence of the book The Future General Practitioner-Learning and Teaching, and most activities consisted of lectures, lecturers usually being local and regional consultants, with occasional national authorities.
(16) In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems.
(17) Peer tutoring combined with praise led to a significant improvement in solving mathematics problems requiring regrouping, word recognition, and ability to locate specific text pages.
(18) Older adults were shown to be capable of producing gains by themselves that were comparable to those obtained following tutor-guided training in the nature of test-relevant cognitive skills.
(19) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
(20) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.