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/lˈɛktʃər/ Listen

noun

Lecture n.

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. (Obs.)

A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

(Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.

verb

Lecture v. t. (past & past part. lectured; pres. part. lecturing)

To read or deliver a lecture to.

To reprove formally and with authority.

Lecture v. i. To deliver a lecture or lectures.

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Etymology of 'Lecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... to-day. Neither of these compliments can fairly be paid to The Natural Son and The Father of the Family. Diderot's plays ought to be looked upon merely as sketchy illustrations of a favourite theory; as the rough drawings on the black board with which a professor of the fine arts may accompany a lecture ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley

... insular levity. He was going over with an array of discriminations that Gregory had likened to an explorer's charts and instruments. He intended to investigate the most minute and measure the most immense, to lecture continually, to dine out every evening and to write a book of some real appropriateness when he came home. Gregory said that all that he asked of America was that it should keep its institutions to itself and share its pretty girls, ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... the oddest compound," continued her cousin, "so gay and comical, and so little given to be shocked and scandalised at the wicked ways of others; or to find fault and lecture; or, in short, to do any of the insufferable things that your good people are so addicted to. I really don't know ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... flame";—at the devotion of that gay Lothario, Tyndall, whose approaching marriage will, he thinks, clip his wings for flirtation. "It seems that at the Royal Institution, or whatever the place is called, young women look up to the Lecturers as priests of Science, and go to them after the lecture in what churchmen would call the vestry, and express charming little doubts about electricity, and pretty gentle disquietudes about the solar system: and then the Professors have to give explanations;—and then, somehow, at the end of ...

— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell

... let us stay," pleaded Mary Nestor, beside whom Tom now stood. "Perhaps Professor Swift will lecture on clouds and air currents and—and such things as that," the girl went on slyly, smiling at the ...

— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton

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