PRELECTED

Verb

prelected

simple past tense and past participle of prelect

Source: Wiktionary


PRELECT

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



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