lection
The act of reading.
Noun
- The act of reading.
- A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
- This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran. - 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,...
Origin
Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lesson.