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prelector, præ-|prɪˈlɛktə(r)|
[a. L. prælector one who reads an author to others, and adds explanations, agent-n. f. prælegĕre: see prelect.]
A public reader or lecturer, esp. in a college or university.
In Oxford formerly interchangeable with professor (as applied to all except the Regius Professors), as the Prelector or Professor of Poetry; in Cambridge applied sometimes to a college tutor or ‘reader’ in a subject of study; also to the college tutor or other officer who attends to the matriculation and graduation of members of his college.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie To Gentl. of Inner Temple, My reuerend Maysters the praelectors and Benchers of the same house. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 385 You shall scarce meet with a Reprover that taketh not his Friend to Taske..with the Cathedrated Authority of a Prælector, or publike Reader, to dissect him. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 50 Of the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford. 1881E. R. Lankester in Nature 10 Nov. 27/1 The steadily working school of biologists which has risen around the Trinity Prælector on the banks of the Cam. 1907Masque Med. Learn. in Bk. of Words Oxf. Pageant 56 Then as Praelector I must needs expound That ye may profit by our picturing.
Hence preˈlectorship, the office of a prelector; also preˈlectress, a female lecturer. rare.
1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 21 §2 Every..professorship..public readership, prelectorship, lectureship..and exhibition..the income of which is payable out of the revenues. 1889Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 640/2 Miss Helen Taylor and her sisterhood of itinerant Home Rule praelectresses. |