prelect
verb (used without object)
to lecture or discourse publicly.
prelection
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a word derived from
prelect.
Example Sentences
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At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones: And when next I regained recollection We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Throughout the whole of this long prelection Dr Phippeny Piecraft had scarcely moved a muscle, listening with ever deeper attention as the story went on.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
And now, as we have the whole morning before us Let us go in, if you make no objection, And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the afternoon there was a prelection again about the catechism. 27th, Monday.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection?
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
