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
Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection?
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
When tired of his lecture, they either began to yawn, or open their mouths in imitation of that act, and the prelection was interrupted.
From The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various
And now, as we have the whole morning before us Let us go in, if you make no objection, And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
