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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To lecture or discourse in public.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To read publicly, as a lecture.
  • To read a lecture or discourse in public; hence, to discourse publicly; lecture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
  • intransitive verb To discourse publicly; to lecture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To discourse publicly; to lecture.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin praelegere, praelect- : prae-, pre- + legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

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