单词 | prelect |
释义 | prelectv.ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose in preference to others have1340 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < v.1620 |
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