HOMILETIC

PRONUNCIATION: (hom-uh-LET-ik)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a homily.
2. Relating to homiletics (the art of preaching).
3. Preachy.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek homiletikos (affable), from homilein (to talk with), from homilos (crowd), from homou (together). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sem- (one), which also gave us simultaneous, assemble, simple, Sanskrit sandhi (union), Russian samovar (a metal urn, literally, self-boiler), and Greek hamadryad (a wood nymph, who lives in a tree and dies when the tree dies), dissimulate, and simulacrum. Earliest documented use: 1644.
______________________________________

WHOMILETIC - I'm very objective about the people I rent to. Just in case.

HEMILETIC - The place is for rent only half the time.

HOMILECTIC - After thinking about the candidates, I've chosen to move my family here.