unlectured

English

Etymology

un- + lectured

Adjective

unlectured (not comparable)

  1. Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
    • 2013, Charles Fox, Educational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods (page 63)
      The average marks of group N (the unlectured) for the first and second slide were 17½ and 31 (medians 15 and 29) []
  2. (archaic) Of a subject or topic: not taught.
    • Edward Young
      Lorenzo, hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh,
      Or studied the philosophy of tears?
      (A science yet unlectured in our schools :) []
    • 1827, Hannah More, Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness: and Other Poems
      Her eyes the movements of her heart declare,
      For what she dares to be, she dares appear;
      Unlectured in dissimulation's school,
      To smile by precept, and to blush by rule, []

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