prelect
To speak publicly; to lecture.
Verb
- To speak publicly; to lecture.
- Spitting, if the reader will pardon the mention of so gross a fact, was shown to be a very difficult part, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great capital. - 1860, Thomas De Quincey,...
- a. 1806, Samuel Horsley, sermon To prelect upon the military art.
Origin
From Latin praelectus, past participle of praelegÅ.