prelect
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Prelec′tion, a lecture or discourse read to others; Prelec′tor, one who prelects: a lecturer.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
In a company of four my father is reduced to complete silence, unless, indeed, he assumes his gown professorial and simply prelects.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
