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单词 prelect
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prelectv.

Brit. /prᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /priˈlɛk(t)/
Forms: 1600s– prelect, 1800s– praelect.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praelect-, praelegere.
Etymology: < classical Latin praelect-, past participial stem of praelegere to pick out, select, to read to others, lecture on < prae- pre- prefix + legere to choose, to read (see lection n.). With sense 1 compare earlier pre-elect v. Compare also earlier prelection n. and praelector n.
1. transitive. To choose in preference to others. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose in preference to others
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prefera1393
to have rather1478
fain1483
prelect1620
dextralize1651
antepone1656
savour1714
preference1904
1620 Swetnam Arraigned by Women ii. sig. C2v Thou know'st with what a generall consent Of all Sicilia I was prelected By my dread Soueraigne.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Prelect, either from prælectus, read before; or from præelectus, one chosen before another.
2. intransitive. To lecture or discourse; to deliver a lecture. Frequently with on, upon.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (intransitive)] > lecture or discourse
readc1300
instruct1510
lecturea1592
prelect1745
1745 ‘S. Gundy’ & ‘M. Merrypin’ Muse's Vagaries I. 5 Hearing old Chemists prelecting de oleo, And reading of Dutch Commentators in Folio.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers iv. iv. 384 With no greater emotion than a professor in a college prelects to his audience.
1803 Edinb. Rev. 1 430 He then prelects upon the construction of the heavens.
1826 Lancet 9 Dec. 319/1 Not a single teacher of the science prelected within its [sc. the university's] walls.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 284 The rector of a gymnasium..sometimes yields to the temptation to prælect to his boys..upon some abstruse point..which is interesting himself.
1900 Times 13 Jan. 12/2 He was well known long before Cousin was prelecting on Le Vrai et le Beau.
1986 M. L. Clarke in L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. 515 He followed the traditional, and statutory, method of prelecting on a text.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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