prelect
verb (used without object)
to lecture or discourse publicly.
prelector
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a word derived from
prelect.
Example Sentences
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He was a little conceited, but my comrade having heard that he was the prelector, gave him a good lesson, at which he was not badly content, and with which he went away.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
On the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
