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Webster 1913 Edition


Prelection

Pre-lec′tion

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Noun.
[L.
praelectio
.]
A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
“The prelections of Faber.”
Sir M. Hale.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prelection

PRELEC'TION

,
Noun.
[L. proelectio.] A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Definition 2024


prelection

prelection

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Noun

prelection (plural prelections)

  1. A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 80:
      ‘I'd like ter put ye in thar,’ replied Cheever, who had stolidly eyed him during this prelection.

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