单词 | praelector |
释义 | praelectorprelectorn. A lecturer, a tutor, esp. in a college or university.In Oxford and some Cambridge colleges: a tutorial fellow or reader in a particular subject (in Oxford formerly interchangeable with professor as applied to all except the Regius Professors); (also in Cambridge) the college officer who attends to the matriculation and graduation of members of a college. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > lecturer lector?1566 praelector1586 lecturer1615 lecturess1825 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie To Innes of Court, sig. Aviv My reuerend Maysters, the Prælectors & Benchers of the same house. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 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. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 122 Of the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford. 1785 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 2 44 Two meetings of the officers and prælectors, of the college shall be held annually. 1853 Putnam's Monthly Aug. 177/2 Professorships in the Universities have been created from time to time by private foundations, by royal grants for the purpose, or by act of the University itself; the title is sometimes that of Reader, or Prelector, or Lecturer. 1881 E. 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. 1907 Masque Med. Learn. in Bk. of Words Oxf. Pageant 56 Then as Praelector I must needs expound That ye may profit by our picturing. 1921 Science 9 Dec. 575/2 Col. Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, F.R.S., has been appointed fellow and prelector in geodesy at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1985 G. Schwartz Rembrandt (1991) xxi. 144/1 Dr Nicholas Tulp was a..prelector of the surgeons' guild. 2002 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 28 396 John Davis has been Fellow and Praelector in Modern History and Politics at the Queen's College, Oxford, since 1989. Derivatives praeˈlectorship n. the office or position of prelector. ΚΠ 1851 A. P. Stanley Let. July in R. E. Prothero Life & Corr. A. P. Stanley (1894) I. xii. 426 Independent of the Chancellor and his prælectorship. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 21 §2 Every..professorship..public readership, prelectorship, lectureship..and exhibition..the income of which is payable out of the revenues. 1992 Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. After taking his Schools, Franks was elected to a fellowship and the praelectorship in philosophy at Queen's in 1927. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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