The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
prelect (third-person singular simple present prelects, present participle prelecting, simple past and past participle prelected)
(intransitive) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*lect" v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prelected; p. pr. & vb. n. Prelecting.] Etym: [L. praelectus, p. p. of praelegere to read before. See Pre-, and Lection.]
Definition: To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
Pre*lect", v. i.
Definition: To discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 April 2024
(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.