Hŏm'i-lēt'ic or Hŏm'i-lēt'ic-al, a.

adjective

a. [Gr. ὁμιλητικός, from ὁμιλεῖν, to be together, to converse, ὅμιλος, an assembled crowd, ὁμός, one and the same, common, gen. neut. ὁμοῦ, together, and ἔλη, crowd; Fr. homilétique.]

Sense 1. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable. [Rare.]

His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

Sense 2. Pertaining to homiletics.