prelection

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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

In the afternoon there was a prelection again about the catechism. 27th, Monday.

From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by James, Bartlett Burleigh

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

The concluding words of the prelection were like the sound of the organ voluntary at twilight, when the worshippers are dispersing.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster