sermocination

English

Etymology

From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.

Noun

sermocination (countable and uncountable, plural sermocinations)

(obsolete) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
- 1514, Fruyte of Redempcyon:
  Every oryson, every tonge, and sermocynacyon.
(rhetoric) A form of prosopopoeia in which one answers one's own question.

References

“sermocination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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