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Prelect   Listen
verb
Prelect  v. t.  (past & past part. prelected; pres. part. prelecting)  To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prelect" Quotes from Famous Books



... vase, from rosso antico itself. A very old and rusty armoury may, as here, be seen any where; but a row of formidable shark skulls, taken along the coast, and some in the very port of Catania, are rarities on which the ciceroni like to prelect, being furnished with many a story of bathers curtailed by them, and secure a large portion of attention, especially if you were just thinking of a dip. A rather fine collection of bronzes has been made from excavations in the neighbourhood, which, indeed, must always promise to reward research. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various



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