prelection

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His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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)

"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

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

But our guide has finished his prelection here, and is striding off in the plenitude of his wisdom.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher