单词 | prelection |
释义 | prelectionn. 1. A public lecture, talk, or reading; esp. a college or university lecture given to students; such a lecture in written form. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > instructive discourse > lecture ordinary?a1475 lecture1536 prelection1565 lection?1566 leccer1899 telelecture1955 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον f. 2 I haue thought good to dedicate vnto your lordship these my Prelections and readings. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1310/1 His prelections or lectures which he did read in Paules, and his poore mans librarie he caused to be imprinted. 1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One ii. sig. C3 You remember my last prelection of the Diuision Of the Earth into parts Reall and Imaginary. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 107 Let him resort to the Prelections of Faber, collected by Monsuerius. 1767 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. i. 16 The latter in his praelection de anima medica, affirms without reserve, that the soul at first forms the body and afterwards governs it. 1794 W. Jones On Mystical Poetry of Persians & Hindus in Wks. 452 The very learned author of the prelections on sacred poetry. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend vi. 268 Let us go in..And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus. 1872 C. Kent Charles Dickens as Reader 206 The author perfected his Reading by the simple utterance of its closing words... The concluding words of the prelection were like the sound of the organ voluntary at twilight. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers i. 10 I was backward with my colleging, and..still attending the prelections of the Edinburgh masters. 1981 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 40 589 The section..is the model of a prelection that not only introduces the student to new knowledge, but leads him step by step. ΚΠ 1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper 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. 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xxii. 271 To induce sleep, nothing could be more efficacious than a slight pre-lection of his poems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prelectionv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To make the subject of prelection; to lecture on. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach orally or lecture > on specific subject prelection1716 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 3 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The next Scholastick Ascent is call'd Grammar, where are prelection'd Tully's Offices, Paradoxes, and Tusculan's Questions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1565v.1716 |
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