lecturise

English

Verb

lecturise (third-person singular simple present lecturises, present participle lecturising, simple past and past participle lecturised)

1. Alternative form of lecturize
   • 1783, Jhon Cavendish, Physical Prudence, page 35:

     Here spacious halls are open to lecturise, and other rooms most magnificient, well preserved with rarities from foreign courttries brought, on which the visitor delights to pour.

   • 1852, William Valentine, George Handel Hill (known as Yankee Hill), Dr. Valentine and Yankee Hill's Metamorphoses, page 109:

     The other sort of treat means to lecturise. And that's jist what I'm goin' to practise on this present 'casion.

   • 2018, Gautam Malkani, Distortion:

     Asks me if I've figured out what he's trying to tell me yet. Takes the mug of Horlicks I give him. When the fuck did I just make Horlicks? And then he's back on some lecturising.

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