prelection
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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 rambling o'er Trumpington stones.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Throughout the whole of this long prelection Dr Phippeny Piecraft had scarcely moved a muscle, listening with ever deeper attention as the story went on.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
In the afternoon there was a prelection again about the catechism. 27th, Monday.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
