Bosom Sermons.

Written sermons, not extemporary ones or from notes. Does it not mean committed to memory or learnt by heart?

“The preaching from ‘bosom sermons,ʹ or from writing, being considered a lifeless practice before the Reformation.”—Blunt: Reformation in England, p. 179.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Borowe
Borr
Borrow
Borrowed days of February (The)
Borrowed days of March
Bortell
Bos[ei] in lingua
Bosh
Bosky
Bosom Friend (A)
Bosom Sermons
Bosphorus=Ox ford
Boss
Bossum
Bostal
Botanomancy
Botany
Botch
Bother
Bothie System
Botley Assizes