prelector

English

Alternative forms

• prælector (archaic)
• praelector

Etymology

From Latin praelēctor.

Noun

prelector (plural prelectors)

1. (archaic) Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
   • 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, pages 38 (A Second Prelude Shewing Briefely that miracles are not certaine tokens of a true Religion) and 178 (Wherein is examined M^r. Floods fifth Reason):

     […] it is ſufficient for me, that their ſo famous a Prælectour, doth teach that by Artes Magicke, the ſame workes are done, which are done by the gift of working miracles. […] Thus this famous Prelectour, by which it is euident, that howſoeuer the Spaniſh; and Papall Emperour, haue drawne them into their ſubiection, they haue not done the ſame by the power of miracles and integritie of life, but only by dint of ſword; […]

Related terms

• prelect

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Prelector, præ-”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1277, column 3.

Further reading

• Praelector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “prelector”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.