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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The concluding words of the prelection were like the sound of the organ voluntary at twilight, when the worshippers are dispersing.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
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
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
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
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 Cassioderus.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
