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Webster 1913 Edition

Prelection

Pre-lec′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

praelectio

.]

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

“The prelections of Faber.”

Sir M. Hale.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prelection

PRELEC'TION

,

Noun.

[L. proelectio.] A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Definition 2024

prelection

prelection

English

Alternative forms

prælection (obsolete)

Noun

prelection ‎(plural prelections)

A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 80:
  ‘I'd like ter put ye in thar,’ replied Cheever, who had stolidly eyed him during this prelection.

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