n.
[L. praelectio.]
A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. «The prelections of Faber.» Sir M. Hale.
prelection
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- A usually formal oral communication to an audience: address, allocution, declamation, lecture, oration, speech, talk. See words.
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