prelect

English

Etymology

Latin praelegō (past participle praelectus).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɹɪˈlɛkt/

Verb

prelect (third-person singular simple present prelects, present participle prelecting, simple past and past participle prelected)

  1. (intransitive) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
    • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
      Spitting […] was […] publicly prelected upon.
    • a. 1806, Samuel Horsley, sermon
      To prelect upon the military art.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prelect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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