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▪ I. lecturing, vbl. n.|ˈlɛktʃərɪŋ| [f. lecture v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. lecture.
a1656Bp. Hall Some Special. in Life 42 Rem. Wks. (1660), Complaining of..my too much liberty of frequent Lecturings. 1694Acts Gen. Assembly 10 That the ministers..shall in their exercise of lecturing read and open up to people some large and considerable portion of the Word of God. 1841in Mem. G. Ewing (1847) xvi. 610 That department of pulpit ministrations called in Scotland lecturing, which is so universal in the north, and so strangely rare in the south. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. vii. (1889) 60 A little mild expostulation or lecturing. 1892Athenæum 9 July 53/3 Sir Robert Ball's chapter on the observatory is..composed with that skill which has made his public lecturing so famous. attrib.1817Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXII. 358 There is now to be..no Lecturing place..without a Licence. 1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. ii, I went into the lecturing room. 1897‘Mark Twain’ Following Equator i. 25 The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris. 1899Beerbohm More 140 His lecturing-tour through the States. ▪ II. ˈlecturing, ppl. a. [-ing2.] That lectures.
1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 359 Hume's words are..remarkable in this lecturing age. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. I. 163 He was always a lecturing old thing. |