sermonize

To deliver a sermon to (someone).

To deliver or speak as though delivering a sermon.

To preach; discourse; harangue; use a dogmatic or didactic style in speaking or writing.

To lecture; lay down the law.

To make sermons; compose or write a sermon.

To preach a sermon to; discourse to in a formal way; persuade, affect, or influence by or as by a sermon.

Also spelled sermonise.

To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.

To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.

To inculcate rigid rules.