sermocination

== English == === Etymology === From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon. === Noun === sermocination (countable and uncountable, plural sermocinations) (obsolete) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing. (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.