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prelect

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Etymology

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Latin praelegō (past participle praelectus).

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

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To speak 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.
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