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prelect, præ-, v.|prɪˈlɛkt|
[f. L. prælect-, ppl. stem of prælegĕre to read to others, lecture upon, f. præ, pre- A. + legĕre to choose, to read.]
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†1. trans. To choose in preference to others.
1620Swetnam Arraign'd (1880) 22 Thou knowst with what a generall consent Of all Sicilia I was prelected By my dread Soueraigne. 1656Blount Glossogr., Prelect, either from prælectus, read before; or from præelectus, one chosen before another.
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2. intr. To lecture or discourse (to an audience, on or upon a subject); to deliver a lecture.
1785Reid Intell. Powers iv. iv. 384 With no greater emotion than a professor in a college prelects to his audience. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 430 He then prelects upon the construction of the hearers. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 284 The rector of a gymnasium..sometimes yields to the temptation to prælect to his boys..upon some abstruse point..which is interesting himself. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. i. i. 44 If we could ascertain the books on which our teachers prelected in the schools before the Reformation. |