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.
   • 1860, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 151:

     Spitting, if the reader will pardon the mention of so gross a fact, was shown to be a very difficult part, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great capital.

   • a. 1806, Samuel Horsley, sermon

     To prelect upon the military art.

Related terms

• prelector

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• plectre