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prelection, præ-, n.|prɪˈlɛkʃən|
[ad. L. prælectiōn-em, n. of action f. prælegĕre: see prec.]
1. A public lecture or discourse; esp. a lecture by a teacher to students at a college or university.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1310/1 His prelections or lectures which he did read in Paules, and his poore mans librarie he caused to be imprinted. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iv. 107 Let him resort to the Prelections of Faber, collected by Monsuerius. 1764Reid Let. Wks. I. 39/2, I examine for an hour upon my morning prelection. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg., School of Salerno, Let us go in..And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus. a1882R. Christison Life I. 412 The lustre which the university prelections of many members of their Church has shed on the Church itself.
2. A previous reading. (Better pre-lection.)
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. xii. 159 Nor could the Disciples have sung with him in consort, except we imagine such a prælection of it to them, as is used by us now. 1857Borrow Romany Rye (1858) I. 271 To induce sleep, nothing could be more efficacious than a slight pre-lection of his poems.
Hence † preˈlection v., trans. to make the subject of prelection; to lecture on. Obs. rare—1.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 3 The next Scholastick Ascent is call'd Grammar, where are prelection'd Tully's Offices, Paradoxes, and Tusculan's Questions. |