prelection
41preaching — n 1. sermon, homily, Obs. predication; lesson, explanation, interpretation, exegesis; discourse, disquisition, exhortation, prelection; epistle, treatise, pastoral, encyclical; homilectics. 2. sermonizing, pulpitry, religious harangue, moralizing …
42rant — v 1. orate, speechify, declaim, discourse, expound, expatiate, hold forth, perorate, go on, go on and on; speak, make an address, talk, take to the hustings, soapbox, Inf. stump; boast, brag, crow, trumpet, talk big, exaggerate, hyperbolize, tell …
43reading — n 1. perusal, study, examination, scrutiny, inspection, survey, review, look through, scan, browsing, skimming; research, search, quest, inquiry, exploration, studying, Inf. grinding, Inf. boning, Inf. cramming. 2. interpretation, construction,… …
44sermon — n 1. homily, preaching, Obs. predication; lesson, interpretation, exegesis; sermonizing, pulpitry. 2. discourse, disquisition, expatiation, descant; speech, talk, address, oration, peroration, prelection; eulogy, encomium. 3. exhortation, lecture …
45teaching — n 1. instruction, education, tuition, tutelage; grounding, initiation, preparation, schooling, training; inculcation, indoctrination, discipline. 2. explanation, illustration, explication, example; interpretation, elucidation, annotation;… …
46speech — [n1] talk accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discussion, doublespeak*, double talk*, elocution, enunciation, expressing, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue …
47talk — [n1] speech, address to group allocution, chalk talk*, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed,… …
48prelect — v.i. deliver lecture. ♦ prelection, n. lecture. ♦ prelector, n. lecturer …
49prelect — [prē lekt′, pri lekt′] vi. [< L praelectus, pp. of praelegere, to read before, lecture: see PRE & LECTURE] to lecture in public prelection n. prelector n …
50praelection — noun see prelection …
