prelection

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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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones: And when next I regained recollection We were rumbling o'er Trumpington stones.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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 Cassioderus.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

So, when Uncle Jaw had finished his prelection, the deacon, after some meditation, came out with, "Railly, they say that your son is going to have the valedictory in college."

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Throughout the whole of this long prelection Dr Phippeny Piecraft had scarcely moved a muscle, listening with ever deeper attention as the story went on.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)