Category:Prelect

Pre*lect" v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prelected; p. pr. & vb. n. Prelecting.] Etym: [l. praelectus, p. p. of praelegere to read before. See pre-, And lection.]

Defn: to read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.

Prelect Pre*lect", v. i.

Defn: to discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting. . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.