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

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

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

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

"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