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
So, when Uncle Jaw had finished his prelection, the deacon, after some meditation, came out with, "Railly, they say that your son is going to have the valedictory in college."
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones; And when next I regained recollection We were rambling o'er Trumpington stones.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
But our guide has finished his prelection here, and is striding off in the plenitude of his wisdom.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
