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▪ I. lector|ˈlɛktə(r)|
Also 6 lectour.
[a. L. lector reader, agent-n. f. legĕre, lect- to read. Cf. F. lecteur.]
1. Eccl. An ecclesiastic belonging to one of the minor orders, whose duty originally consisted in reading the ‘lessons’.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 201/2 Julyan..entrid in to relygyon..and semed to be holy and was made lector. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 106 Four inferiours, to wit, the order of ostiars, lectors, Exorcists and Acolyts. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iv. iv. 19 A lectors publike reading of Scripture in the Church upon the Sabbath day. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. p. clxxix, The custom was that the lector should not begin to read till the bishop nodded to him. 1852J. H. Newman Callista (1890) 339 The Lector, a man of venerable age, taking the roll called Lectionarium, and proceeding to the pulpit, read the Prophets to the people. 1885Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 381/1 The singing of the Gospel was not always reserved to the deacon..and..the lector still recites the Gospel in the Greek Mass.
2. A reader; chiefly spec. a ‘reader’ or lecturer in a college or university (now only Hist. and with reference to foreign use, e.g. that of Germany).
1563–7Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (1892) 6 Personis. The Principal. Ane Lectour Publik. Vj Regentis. Ibid. 7 Wagis of the Personis..The public lectour ane hundreth markis. 1658Phillips, Lecturer, or Lectour, a publick Professour, a Reader of Lectures. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4406/1 Cardinal Carpegna, First Lector of the French College of Theatins. 1889Edin. Rev. Apr. 331 Vincent de Beauvais was lector or Librarian to St. Louis. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 178/1 Handing in the depositions..he desired us to read for ourselves. I was chosen lector.
Hence † ˈlectoress, a female instructor.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 270 Now after she hath..bin threescore yeares a Lectoresse in vice [F. a enseigné soixante ans le vice].
▪ II. lector(n
obs. forms of lectern. |