prelection

Example Sentences

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In the afternoon there was a prelection again about the catechism. 27th, Monday.

From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by James, Bartlett Burleigh

And now, as we have the whole morning before us Let us go in, if you make no objection, And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

From The Golden Legend by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

"Well, treatise, then," said I, "or discourse, or essay, or prelection; I'm not particular as to words."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various

Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection?

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)