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>   1.  abalienate(1585) Abp. Sandys Sermons (1841) 300 ``The devil
>      and his deceitful angels do so..abalienate their minds, and
>      trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said. ''
>   2.  abase (1539) Bp. Tonstall Sermon on Palme sondaye (1823) 1
>      ``He dyd abase hym selfe, takynge vpon hym the fourme of a
>      seruant. ''
>   3.  abastardiz(1610) Donne Sermon xcvi. IV. 258 ``An insinuating
>      of false and adulterous blood, in abastardizing a race, by
>      supposititious children. ''
>   4.  abate (1651) Jer. Taylor Sermons i. ix. 104 ``They were abated
>      with humane infirmities and not at all heightened by the
>      Spirit.''
>   5.  abate (1647) Sanderson Sermons Ad Aul. xv. 1 (1673) 209 ``He
>      therefore sendeth for his Master's Debtors forthwith; abateth
>      them of their several Sums, and makes the Books agree. ''
>   6.  ABC (1579) Tomson Calvin's Sermons 22/1 ``When he gaue vs his
>      worde, hee did not giue vs an A. b. c. onely, but hee taught vs
>      with open mouth. ''
>   7.  ABC (A. 1593) H. Smith Sermons 252 ``This is the Abce, and
>      Primmer, and Grammar, the first lesson and last lesson of a
>      Christian. ''
>   8.  abetment (A. 1677) Barrow Sermons II. xx. 279 (1683) ``Never
>      hardly any eminent Person appeared with a pretence of coming
>      from God..without God's visible interposal and abetment.''
>   9.  abidance (1755) S. Walker Sermons vi, ``The Days of Man are
>      shrunk into the Abidance of a Moment. ''
>  10.  ablative (1622) Bp. Hall Sermon bef. His Maiestie 15 Sept. 489
>      ``Ablatiue directions are first needfull to vnteach error ere
>      wee can learne truth. ''
>  11.  able (1758) S. Hayward Sermons iv. 108 ``Christ is thus a
>      compleat and able saviour. ''
>  12.  abortive (1654) Fuller Two Sermons 75 ``Whether this will ever
>      be really effected, whether it will prove an Abortive..Time
>      will tell. ''
>  13.  abroad (1550) Lever Sermons 29 ``Their riches muste abrode in
>      the countrey, to bie fermes. ''
>  14.  account (A. 1710) Atterbury Sermons (R.) ``A future reckoning,
>      wherein the pleasures they now taste must be accounted for.''
>  15.  acold (1388) Wimbleton's Sermon in Halliw., ``The syknesse of
>      the world thou schalt knowe by charyt&eacu. acoldyng. ''
>  16.  advancemen(1810) Horsley Sermons I. x. (R.) ``The joint
>      advancement of the virtue and the happiness of the people.''
>  17.  after- (1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Dev. Writ. (1959) 100
>      ``The Holy Ghost makes of every Christian another Christ, an
>      *AfterChrist. ''
>  18.  alien (1875) McLaren Sermons Ser. ii. vii. 125 ``Good, alas!
>      is but too alien and unwelcome.''
>  19.  almoign (1596) Barlow Three Sermons iii. 116 ``They hold what
>      ever they have in Frankalmoin from God. ''
>  20.  a mensa et(A. 1683) J. Owen Sermons (1721) 572 ``This divorce
>      a mensa &. thoro only is no true divorce, but a mere fiction of
>      a divorce. ''
>  21.  Anglo-Cath(1842) P. Gell Sermon Preached at Visitation of
>      Archdeacon of Derby 33 ``The Anglo-Catholics consider it
>      essential to be ordained by bishops receiving their appointment
>      in regular succession from the apostles.''
>  22.  antithetic(1853) Robertson Sermons Ser. iv. ix. (1876) 112
>      ``The whole context is antithetical. Ideas are opposed to each
>      other in pairs of contraries.''
>  23.  arch- (1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Dev. Wr. (1959) 199 ``So
>      that if the Devil is symbolised as a snake he must be an
>      *archsnake and a dragon. ''
>  24.  autarky (1635) H. Valentine Foure Sea-Sermons 10 ``It may as
>      well stand upon its bottome, and boast an Autarchie, and selfe
>      sufficiencie. ''
>  25.  Bible (1789) J. Wesley Sermon no. xlviii, in Arminian Mag.
>      Jan. 7 ``They were continually reproached for this very thing:
>      some terming them in derision, Bible-bigots; others
>      Bible-moths: feeding, they said, upon the Bible, as moths do
>      upon cloth. ''
>  26.  blended (1621) H. King Sermon 26 ``A blended mixture of the
>      qualities. ''
>  27.  blending (1642) W. Price Sermon 41 ``The Text may be meant of
>      a blending mixture in Religion. ''
>  28.  bogus (1859) Dow Jr. New Patent Sermons 216 ``Crocodile tears
>      are bogus. ''
>  29.  both (1649) Rainbowe Sermon 2 ``A King whose both hands God
>      had filled with blessings of every kind. ''
>  30.  Cain (1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons xxix. 73 ``They will
>      feel that they have been raising Cain and breaking things. ''
>  31.  calculate (1732) Berkeley Sermon to S.P.G. Wks. III. 250 ``The
>      Christian religion was calculated for the bulk of mankind. ''
>  32.  cater-corn(1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons xxi. 52
>      ``Unless you..took too many catty-cornered tracks, Making but
>      little headway with the tacks, While calling on the ladies. ''
>  33.  chess-boar(1868) T. H. Huxley Lay Sermons (1870) iii. 36 ``The
>      chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the
>      universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of
>      Nature. ''
>  34.  clamour (1646) J. Maine Sermon conc. Unity (1647) 36
>      ``To..clamour down all the primitive Truths for some
>      Generations taught among them. ''
>  35.  cleave (C. 1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) 154 ``In that
>      `cleave' of being which each of his creatures shews to God's
>      eyes alone. ''
>  36.  cleave (C. 1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons 328 ``Like so many
>      `cleaves' or exposed faces of some pomegranates..cut in all
>      directions across.''
>  37.  coequate (1624) Ussher Sermon 59 ``God is made the co&ae.quate
>      object of the whole body of Divinitie. ''
>  38.  complement(1617) Bp. Andrewes 96 Sermons (1661) 651 ``As if we
>      could complement it with God, with face and phrases, as with
>      men we do. ''
>  39.  conviciate(1628) J. Doughty Sermon 23 ``Amidst the noise of
>      such conuiciating iarres, the truth is scarcely heard.''
>  40.  countervie(1607) S. Collins Sermon (1608) 39 ``The two
>      Cherubins that face the Mercy seat with mutuall counterview. ''
>  41.  courant (1621) Bp. H. King Sermon 59 ``Euery fabulous Gazette,
>      and idle Corante that posts betwixt England and Doway. ''
>  42.  crept (1628) J. Doughty Sermon 25 ``A crept in falshood. ''
>  43.  crumble (1646) J. Maine Sermon (1647) 19 ``This diversity of
>      Tongues at first broke the world into the severall crumbles and
>      portions of men. ''
>  44.  denunciati(A. 1626) W. Sclater Three Sermons (1629) 21 ``It's
>      spoken..Denunciatiuely. ''
>  45.  discommon (1588) Bp. Andrewes Ninety-six Sermons (1843) V. 41
>      ``Every man doeth what in him lieth to discommon communities.
>      ''
>  46.  discretion(1590) R. Bruce Sermons, ``Without discretion of His
>      substance fra His graces. ''
>  47.  dispunctio(1637) Jackson Divers Sermons Wks. 1844 VI. 44 ``The
>      dispunction or inversion of points or letters. ''
>  48.  disquire (1627) J. Doughty Sermon (1628) 10 ``The Lord hath
>      wholly exposed all the creatures to mans disquiry. ''
>  49.  down-turn (1909) R. Kane Sermon of Sea xx. 325 ``The rusty
>      green and knitted surface of the sod are gradually cloven and
>      down&dubh.turned. ''
>  50.  efficaciou(1630) J. Preston Sermons bef. his Majesty 44 ``As
>      that which hath sinewes and efficatiousnesse in it [differs]
>      from that which is..powerlesse. ''
>  51.  elder (1828) E. Irving Sermons I. p. xxiii, ``These Sermons on
>      the Incarnation..you received with all acceptation; and the
>      Elders whom God hath set over you made choice of them to stand
>      first in these volumes. ''
>  52.  embrace (1743) J. Morris Sermons viii. 214 ``So may
>      they..heartily imbrace the truth. ''
>  53.  empeiral (1587) Harmar tr. Beza's Sermons 421 (T.) ``Empeirall
>      practicks, who use the medicines which they call narcoticall.''
>  54.  empory (1607) Bp. J. King Sermon (Nov.) 2 ``The renouned
>      Emporie and Mart of the whole Kingdome. ''
>  55.  enaction (1630) J. Craven Sermon (1631) 14 ``Laudable
>      enactions; but the misery is..lamentable executions. ''
>  56.  enamour (A. 1626) W. Sclater Sermons Experimentall (1638) 210
>      ``Methinks, therefore, that I might enamore you of love towards
>      this mercy of God in Christ Jesus. ''
>  57.  enchase (1616) J. B. Sermon 18 ``The Soule and the Body are
>      olde friends, so enchased, one into another, that, etc. ''
>  58.  enfold (1646) N. Lockyer Sermon 11 ``There be many
>      difficulties about the creature, but may be all infolded in
>      one, to wit, sinne.''
>  59.  enlightenm(1846) W. H. Mill Five Sermons (1848) 5 ``The
>      highest spiritual enlightenment. ''
>  60.  eruption (1623) Th. Ailesbury Sermon (1624) 17 ``In that
>      eruption of the Prodigall sonne from his Father. ''
>  61.  escaping (1650) Bp. Jer. Taylor Fun. Sermon 14 ``Such
>      escapings we must reckon to be an extraordinary fortune. ''
>  62.  ever (1742) F. Blyth Sermons II. 281 ``The immense Sea of
>      God's ever-flowing Mercy. ''
>  63.  extemporal(1836) J. Keble Sermons viii. Postscript (1848),
>      ``The light extemporal way in which many reject it. ''
>  64.  eyesight (1849) Robertson Sermons Ser. i. x. 167 ``To our
>      blinded eyesight it seems a cruel will. ''
>  65.  fiduciary (1653) W. Sclater Fun. Sermon (1654) 31 ``He really
>      and fiduciarily intended it. ''
>  66.  fixure (1817) Coleridge Lay Sermon in Ch. &. St. (1839) 404
>      ``The very habit and fixures..that had been impressed on their
>      frames by the former..winters.''
>  67.  flee (1678) Tillotson Sermons (ed. 3) I. 64 ``We can
>      have..none in all the world to fle [ed. 1671 p. 64 flye] to,
>      but Him. ''
>  68.  for (1626) T. Ailesbury Passion-sermon 15 ``The Jewes for long
>      were..the favourites of heaven. ''
>  69.  fore- (1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) ii. viii. 196
>      ``There is..in the works of creation..the order of
>      intention,..not only intention in understanding and intention
>      in will but also intention or forepitch of execution, of power
>      or activity. ''
>  70.  fore-read (1620) Bp. Saunderson Twelve Sermons (1637) 303
>      ``Not onely to foreknow the extraordinary plagues..but also to
>      fore-read in them Gods fierce wrath and heavie displeasure.''
>  71.  forestall (C. 1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) ii. iii. 150
>      ``The..act (of consenting to grace) is really necessary... But
>      if after this we are left to ourselves for a leisurely and
>      deliberate avowal or disavowal of this `forestall' (as I shall
>      call it), [etc.]. ''
>  72.  forestall (C. 1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons 155 ``Remark that
>      prayer understood in this sense, this sigh or aspiration or
>      stirring of the spirit towards God, is a forestall of the thing
>      to be done, as on the other side grace prevenient is God's
>      forestall of the same.''
>  73.  foreteach (1909) tr. Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent &.
>      Christmas 152 ``They are foretaught by the Holy Spirit.''
>  74.  forward (1836) Newman Parochial Sermons (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 325
>      ``Now, it is plain that there are two sorts of men in the
>      world;-those who put themselves forward, and speak much; and
>      those who retire.''
>  75.  Gallo-Roma(1861) W. H. Anderton tr. Dupanloup's Sermon Cath.
>      Ireland 8 ``Saint Patrick, that young Gallo-Roman whom we had
>      sent to her [sc. Ireland]. ''
>  76.  get-up (1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons 86 ``It flats
>      right down, and stays there, like a junk of dough-no get up to
>      it. ''
>  77.  halve (1641) W. Bray Sermon 23 ``The Church of Rome..halfes
>      out to them an imperfect Sacrament. ''
>  78.  hard (1879) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) 18 ``Christ has..made
>      us deaf here,..with his hands *hardnailed out and appealingly
>      stretched on the cross. ''
>  79.  hortus con(1624) Donne LXXX Sermons (1640) xvii. 165 ``The
>      University is a Paradise, Rivers of knowledge are there, Arts
>      and Sciences flow from thence. Counsell Tables are Horti
>      conclusi (as it is said in the Canticles). ''
>  80.  ill-dispos(1622) Bp. Andrewes Sermons, ``If rugged or uneven
>      the way, if the weather ill-disposed. ''
>  81.  impretiabl(1638) O. Sedgwicke Sermon (1639) 69 ``They [divine
>      Truthes] are impretiable.''
>  82.  inapparent(1898) J. Caird Univ. Sermons 371 ``These are the
>      invisible realities, inapparent, impenetrable to sense. ''
>  83.  inordinati(1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 133 ``The inordination, ugliness of sin in the frame and
>      world of Creator and creature.''
>  84.  install (C. 1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) ii. iii. 146 ``For accidental being, such as that of the
>      broken fragments of things or things purely artificial or
>      chance `installs', has no true and intrinsic oneness or true
>      self.''
>  85.  junk (1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons 77 ``Trash, that
>      wouldn't fetch two cents in the market of heaven, and but a
>      trifle more in the junk-shops of hell. ''
>  86.  just (1960) R. A. Knox Occasional Sermons 227 ``Many who value
>      the name of Christian still find it reasonable to believe that
>      he did just that. ''
>  87.  labile (1557) R. Edgeworth Sermons Pref. sig. &304.3, ``I euer
>      fearinge the labilitie of my remembraunce, vsed to pen my
>      sermons. ''
>  88.  leaven (1549) Latimer Seven Sermons A a iij b, ``It was a
>      solitarye place and thyther he wente wt hys leauen Apostles.''
>  89.  lose (1858) H. Bushnell Sermons for New Life ix. 176 ``The
>      child brought up a thief gets an infinite power of cunning..and
>      loses out just as much in the power of true perception. ''
>  90.  lummox (1854) Dow Jr. Patent Sermons IV. 149 (Th.), ``Man in
>      his original state is little more than a big lummux of a baby.
>      ''
>  91.  mean (1857) Dow, Jr. Dow's Patent Sermons 1st Ser. 7 ``As
>      mean..as a rooster in a thundershower. ''
>  92.  mean (1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons 78 ``[One girl]
>      thought me real mean for uttering such super-diabolical
>      sentiments. ''
>  93.  meech (1857) Dow, Jr. Dow's Patent Sermons 1st Ser. 203 ``When
>      you fall short of the object for which you jump, you go meechin
>      off, like a cat that has missed her mouse. ''
>  94.  meiotic (1676) R. Meggott Sermon preached on St. Paul's Day 6
>      ``This is that which according to the Hebrew way of speaking is
>      here meiotically expressed by It is not good. ''
>  95.  middle age(1621) Donne Sermon I Tim. 1. 15 (1661) 192 ``It is
>      a perplex't question in the School, (and truly the Balance in
>      those of the middle age, very even) whether if Adam had not
>      sinned, the son of God had come into the world, and taken our
>      nature and our flesh upon him. ''
>  96.  moring (C. 1430) Capgrave Sermon (B.M. Addit. MS. 36704 lf.
>      119), ``The xj son hite Joseph, and he is to say a moring or
>      augmentacion.''
>  97.  O (1940) W. O. Ross M. E. Sermons p. xxix, ``S appears very
>      rarely for OE. sc. ''
>  98.  object (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) ii. i. 127 ``Part of this world of objects, this
>      *object-world, is also part of the very self in question. ''
>  99.  O.K. (1841) Dow, Jr. Short Patent Sermons 106 ``Fortitude..
>      infuses new life into his soul, while Hope adds an O.K. to his
>      condition. ''
> 100.  out- (1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 197 ``The first intention then of God outside himself
>      or, as they say, ad extra, outwards, the first *outstress of
>      God's power, was Christ; and we must believe that the next was
>      the Blessed Virgin. ''
> 
>   1.  out- (1909) R. Kane Sermon of Sea xix. 306 ``Its eager essence
>      is roused, directed, loosened, and flung forward in the
>      *out&dubh.flooding force of a soul's quest, in the torrent-like
>      tide of love. ''
>   2.  outsetting(1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 127 ``This applies to the universal mind or being too;
>      it will have its inset and its outsetting; only that the
>      out&dubh.setting includes all things, with all of which it is
>      in some way..identified.''
>   3.  parliament(1642) R. Harris Sermon Ep. Ded., ``My worke was to
>      Mourne, to Preach; not to Parliament-it. ''
>   4.  period (1960) R. A. Knox Occasional Sermons xl. 331 ``It is
>      all quite convincing, and beautifully period. Why is it so
>      period? ''
>   5.  pie (1857) Dow Jr. Dow's Patent Sermons 1st Ser. 21 ``Let her
>      alone and in five minutes the storm will be over, and she as
>      good as pie again. ''
>   6.  playing (1577) T. White Sermon (1578) sig. C viii verso, ``If
>      it [sc. the Theatre] be not suppressed..it will make such a
>      Tragedie, yt all London may well mourne..for it is no *playing
>      time..but time to pray rather. ''
>   7.  point (1760) Sterne Sermons II. xi. 112 ``Look at a man in one
>      light...behold him in another point of view. ''
>   8.  pop (1483) Quatuor Sermones in Festivall, etc. a v b, ``Ne
>      haue not your vysage poppyd, ne your here pullyd or crowlyd
>      [ed. 1532 pomped].''
>   9.  potential (1524) Linacre De Emendata Structura Latini Sermonis
>      (ed. Paris 1550) 30 ``Potentialem vocamus, quem Graeci per
>      a&lenis.&acu.n coniunctionem &. verbum duplicis modi, alias
>      indicatiui, alias optatiui, explicant.''
>  10.  powder (? 1640) New Sermon of newest Fashion (1877) 39 ``If I
>      might have my will itt should goe downe with a pouder. ''
>  11.  Presbyteri(1732) E. Erskine Synod Sermon Wks. 1871 I. 504
>      ``All sound Presbyterians, who read the history of our
>      forefathers, generally approve of the practice of Mr. Samuel
>      Rutherford..and other ministers of this church. ''
>  12.  question (1642) R. Harris Sermon 29 ``If wee follow
>      Chrysostom's sense..and read the words Questionwise, Will hee
>      suffer long? ''
>  13.  quetch (A. 1664) Frank Sermons (1672) 147 ``To..look up
>      stedfastly still, not quich aside. ''
>  14.  rail-train(1872) Talmage Sermons 139 ``It is a rail-train..run
>      into by a Bangor express. ''
>  15.  ramble (A. 1716) South Sermons (1737) II. 107 ``Put off with
>      ramble and confused talk, babble, and tautology. ''
>  16.  ramble (A. 1716) South Sermons 159 ``Their prayers; so full of
>      ramble and inconsequence.''
>  17.  rambunctio(1859) Dow, Jr. New Patent Sermons 120 ``Some [men]
>      are mild and peaceable as lambs, while others are as uproarious
>      and rambunctious as tigers. ''
>  18.  redolent (1643) Udall Serm. in Shute's Sermons (1645) 8 ``The
>      substance of this Text, and..the pretious fragrant redolent
>      oyntment in it.''
>  19.  relaxity (A. 1784) S. Johnson Sermons (1788) I. xiii. 271
>      ``Men have ever been persuaded, that by doing something, to
>      which they think themselves not obliged, they may purchase an
>      exemption from such duties as they find themselves inclined to
>      violate: that they may commute with heaven for a temporal fine,
>      and make rigour atone for relaxity. ''
>  20.  retaliate (1642) R. Harris Sermon 27 ``Yea, hee
>      will..retaliate our Adversaries and justify our Cause. ''
>  21.  revolution(1799) J. Morse Sermon Exhibiting Present Dangers 17
>      ``The Clergy have been among the first victims to that
>      sanguinary revolutionizing spirit which now convulses the
>      world. ''
>  22.  rhetoriciz(1676) R. Meggott Sermon on St. Paul's Day 10 ``But
>      we (as he very melancholily rhetoriciseth) are naked, impotent,
>      and shiftless. ''
>  23.  rubrish (1509) Fisher Sermon C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 292
>      ``Of latyn..she had a lytell perceyuynge, specyally of the
>      rubrysshe of the ordynall. ''
>  24.  Sacred Hea(1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) 100 (heading)
>      ``For Sunday June 26 1881 being the Sunday..nearest the Feast
>      of the Sacred Heart (which this year is to be kept on Monday
>      the 27th). ''
>  25.  Sacred Hea(1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons (1959) 102 ``When we
>      say the Sacred Heart it is of Christ himself we are thinking
>      and not of his heart only.''
>  26.  salmon (1927) M. Asquith Lay Sermons v. 106 ``The Durham
>      Ranger and Black Dog are salmon-flies. ''
>  27.  savagerous(1859) Dow, Jr. New Patent Sermons 263 ``A very
>      sawagerous creature called the Youknowcan. ''
>  28.  scape (1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) ii. ii. 136 ``Our action leaves in our minds scapes or
>      species, the extreme `intention' or instressing of which would
>      be painful. ''
>  29.  scape (1883) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings,
>      (1959) ii. ii. 136 ``The soul then can be instressed in the
>      species or scape of any bodily action..and so towards the
>      species or scape of any object, as of sight, sound, taste,
>      smell. ''
>  30.  secretary (1635) H. Valentine Foure Sea-Sermons 24 ``It is
>      reported of Aristotle that great Secretary of Nature, that
>      [etc.]. ''
>  31.  self- (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 125 ``Above all my shame, my guilt, my fate are the very
>      things in feeling, in tasting, which I most taste that
>      *selftaste which nothing in the world can match. ''
>  32.  self-being(1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 122 ``And this whether I speak of human nature or of my
>      individuality, my selfbeing. ''
>  33.  self-given(1909) R. Kane Sermon of Sea viii. 120 ``This object
>      of intuitive consciousness must have its moral kind, its
>      spiritual character, its self-given growth in evil or in good.
>      ''
>  34.  self-start(1927) M. Asquith Lay Sermons i. 22 ``After making
>      elaborate notes on all his self-starting symptoms, he wrote a
>      long prescription. ''
>  35.  selve (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings
>      (1959) 122 ``Human nature, being more highly pitched, selved,
>      and distinctive than anything in the world. ''
>  36.  selve (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings 123
>      ``Nothing else in nature comes near this unspeakable stress of
>      pitch, distinctiveness, and selving, this selfbeing of my own.
>      ''
>  37.  selve (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings 125
>      ``Nothing can..exercise function and determination before it
>      has a nature to `function' and determine, to selve and
>      instress, with. ''
>  38.  selve (1880) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional Writings, 125
>      ``I may treat the question from the side of my being, which is
>      said to be compounded, selved-up, or identified with this
>      universal mind. ''
>  39.  seraphical(1692) South 12 Sermons (1697) V. 33 ``The most
>      Seraphical Illuminati, and the highest Puritan Perfectionists.
>      ''
>  40.  Shaddai (1620) J. Donne Sermon (1957) III. 191 ``Shaddai is
>      the name of God, and yet Shaddai is spoyle, violence and
>      depredation. ''
>  41.  she (1881) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Spiritual Writings (1959)
>      170 ``The woman, that is she-being, not she-man, of the
>      Apocalypse.''
>  42.  sight (1834) J. H. Newman Parochial Sermons I. xvii. 258 ``And
>      all these inducements to live by sight and not by faith are
>      greatly increased, when men are engaged in any pursuit which
>      properly belongs to the intellect. ''
>  43.  slender (1574) A. L. tr. Calvin, Four Sermons D viij, ``We
>      haue not yet comprehended all, for our capacitie is to
>      sclendre. ''
>  44.  smoke (1959) C. Devlin Sermons &. Devotional Writings of G. M.
>      Hopkins 5 ``In this *smoke-sodden little town he [sc. Hopkins]
>      came up against people who needed him desperately. ''
>  45.  snob (1960) J. O'Hara Sermons &. Soda-Water I. 26 ``He doesn't
>      want to know her any better and neither would my mother. That
>      isn't snobbishness... You're the snob of us two. ''
>  46.  solemnify (1780) J. Mainwaring Sermons on Several Occasions p.
>      xxv, ``Some divines delight to sadden and solemnify their
>      sermons with Scripture passages.''
>  47.  spaning (1565) J. Knox Sermon 24 b, ``This weaning (or spaning
>      as we terme it) from worldly pleasure, is a thing straunge to
>      the flesh. ''
>  48.  specious (A. 1670) Hacket Cent. Sermons (1675) 422 ``There is
>      thy Saviour..looking like a specious Bridegroom. ''
>  49.  spectacle (1628) Donne Sermons 289, ``I thank him..that
>      assists me with a Spectacle when my sight grows old. ''
>  50.  sphere (1839) J. H. Newman Par. Sermons IV. xiii. 235 ``Each
>      knows little about what goes on in any other sphere than his
>      own. ''
>  51.  spirit (1865) T. T. Carter in Oxford Lent Sermons xiii. 198
>      ``Within this new dispensation of the Spirit there is a
>      specially sacred Presence of our Lord. ''
>  52.  spot (1578) J. Stockwood Sermon preached..24 Aug. 142 ``They
>      perfectlye can tell howe manye spottes there be in a payre of
>      Cardes..when as they scarce reade a leafe of the Bible twice in
>      a Moneth. ''
>  53.  squeasy (A. 1660) Hammond Sermons viii. Wks. 1684 IV. 614 ``A
>      squeasiness and rising up of the heart against any
>      mean..condition of men. ''
>  54.  strength (1836) J. H. Newman Parochial Sermons III. i. 3 ``Of
>      course men who make such sacrifices, often evidence much
>      strength of character in making them. ''
>  55.  supersemin(1637) Reynolds Sermon 12 July (1638) 17 ``While
>      there is corruption in our Nature,..and an envious man to
>      superseminate, there will still bee..men that will bee
>      differently minded. ''
>  56.  supposite (C. 1882) G. M. Hopkins Sermons &. Devotional
>      Writings (1959) ii. iii. 146 ``A person is defined a rational
>      (that is/intellectual) supposit. ''
>  57.  theandric (1828) E. Irving Sermons I. 140 + p. lxix, ``A class
>      of heretics..asserting, that there was only one operation,
>      Theandric or Godmanly. ''
>  58.  undisinher(A. 1631) Donne Sermons i. (1634) 35 ``The
>      undisinheritable sonnes of God.''
>  59.  unfeelable(1632) J. Dod Ten Sermons, etc. 269 ``This
>      Christ,..in whom we behold God which is invisible, and touch
>      him which is vnfeelable.''
>  60.  unsimplify(1960) R. A. Knox Occas. Sermons xx. 94 ``We try to
>      simplify modern politics, by making them all black and white,
>      all heroes and villains; and in doing that we only unsimplify
>      ourselves. ''
>  61.  unstayedne(1874) Pusey Lent. Sermons 326 ``He clad Himself
>      with our fear, that He might array our unstayedness with the
>      solidity of His virtue.''
>  62.  uttermost (1553) Latimer Sermon on Lord's Prayer (1562) 51 b,
>      ``The lord..caste him into prison, there to lye till he had
>      paied the vttermost farthing. ''
>  63.  vexatiousn(1668) Bp. Hopkins Sermons, Vanity (1685) 39 ``There
>      is a fourfold vexatiousness in all worldly things. ''
>  64.  void (1849) Julius Hare Sermons II. 469 ``We learn that the
>      courts of heaven are not a bare void, but that..innumerable
>      beings are there. ''
>  65.  wellmost (1622) R. Harris Sermon To Rdr., ``Our vnthankfulnes
>      and vnfruitfulnes hath welmost vndone vs. ''
>  66.  which-like(1641) Sanderson Sermons (1681) II. 4 ``By long
>      accustoming themselves to which-like outward observances, they
>      had almost lost the vigor and soul of true religion.''
>  67.  wood (C. 1380) Wyclif Sermon Sel. Wks. II. 4 ``Hony of &th.e
>      woode. ''
>  68.  wrack (1888) Scot. Sermons in Brit. Workman May, ``Doon gaed
>      the biggin', and unco wrack.''
>  69.  write (A. 1653) H. Binning Sermon Wks. (1845) 648 ``Insobriety
>      is written upon many passages of your behaviour. ''
>  70.  wry (1493) Festyvall, Four Sermons 21/2 ``As a galled horse
>      that is touched on the sore wyncheth &. wryeth. ''
>  71.  wry (1521) Fisher Sermon agst. Luther iv. D v, ``Men of fell
>      wyttes..[who] had the propre fayth to wrye &. to torcasse the
>      scryptures. ''