prelect
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praelectus.
Verb
prelect (third-person singular simple present prelects, present participle prelecting, simple past and past participle prelected)
- (intransitive) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
- De Quincey
- Spitting […] was publicly prelected upon.
- Bishop Horsley
- To prelect upon the military art.
- De Quincey
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)