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/lˈɛktʃər/ Listen

noun

Lecture n.

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. (Obs.)

A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

(Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.

verb

Lecture v. t. (past & past part. lectured; pres. part. lecturing)

To read or deliver a lecture to.

To reprove formally and with authority.

Lecture v. i. To deliver a lecture or lectures.

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Etymology of 'Lecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife! Who has no will but by her high permission, Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to he, his dear friend's secrets tell, Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart; I'd charm her with the magic of a switch, I'd kiss her maids, ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... characters on the stage. Nor, to my taste, does the mere music and melancholy dignity of your style in these passages of meditation fall far below the highest efforts of poetry. I remember that scene where Clive, at Barnes Newcome's Lecture on the Poetry of the Affections, sees Ethel who is lost to him. "And the past and its dear histories, and youth and its hopes and passions, and tones and looks for ever echoing in the heart and present in the memory—these, no doubt, poor ...

— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang

... cried the boy; "don't, don't, please; that doesn't seem like you. It's like being at the rectory. Don't you begin to lecture me." ...

— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn

... lovely to pass along the corridor with one's books in one's hands, to push the swinging, glass-panelled door, and enter the big room where the first lecture would be given. The windows were large and lofty, the myriad brown students' desks stood waiting, the great blackboard was smooth behind ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... Demosthenes ever moved an audience as I did mine!" cried Richard gaily. "If his orations produced a like effect, I am certain that the Grecian lecture-bureau never sent him twice to ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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