Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reader of discourses; a lecturer, particularly in a university.
- noun Same as
father , 12. Dickens, Dict. Oxf. and Camb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
reader oflectures ordiscourses ; alecturer .
Etymologies
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Latin praelector.
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Examples
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He was a little conceited, but my comrade having heard that he was the prelector, gave him a good lesson, at which he was not badly content, and with which he went away.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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The parish prelector, [343] who is the son of minister
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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On the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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