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prelection

NOUN

speech

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WEAK

address allocution appeal bombast chalk talk commentary debate declamation diatribe discourse disquisition dissertation eulogy exhortation harangue homily invocation keynote lecture opus oration oratory panegyric paper parlance parley pep talk pitch recitation rhetoric salutation sermon spiel stump talk tirade valedictory

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"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

At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones: And when next I regained recollection We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in estimation.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones; And when next I regained recollection We were rambling o'er Trumpington stones.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

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

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