"Ileen was a strictly vegetable compound, guaranteed under the Pure Ambrosia and Balm-of-Gilead Act of the year of the fall of Adam. She was a fruit-stand blonde-strawberries, peaches, cherries, etc. Her eyes were wide apart, and she possessed the calm that precedes a storm that never comes. But it seems to me that words (at any rate per) are wasted in an effort to describe the beautiful. Like fancy, "It is engendered in the eyes." There are three kinds of beauties--I was foreordained to be homiletic; I can never stick to a story."

homiletic
SYLLABICATION: hom·i·let·ic
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: hm-ltk KEY
VARIANT FORMS: also hom·i·let·i·cal (--kl)
ADJECTIVE: 1. Relating to or of the nature of a homily.
2. Relating to homiletics.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin homlticus, from Greek homltikos, of conversation, from homltos, conversation, from homlein, to converse with, from homlos, crowd. See homily.