praelector

plural praelectors

1. alternativeAlternative form of prelector.

   Annual lectures on anatomy were given by the praelectors of the Surgeon’s Guilds in Amsterdam, Leiden, and Delft, and their position was commemorated in official portraits of these lectures.

   2004, Mary Hollingsworth, Art in World History: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Sharpe Reference, →ISBN, page 342

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   Ruysch, who became praelector of anatomy in Amsterdam, went on to develop this injection technique into the most extraordinary displays, some of which caught the eye of Peter the Great on his visit to the Netherlands.

   1984, Mary A[gnes] B[urniston] Brazier, A History of Neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th Centuries: From Concept to Experiment, New York, N.Y.: Raven Press, →ISBN, page 41

   The fact that Herbert was chosen first as a praelector in Rhetoric in 1618, then as University Orator in 1620, suggests that he was seen as an exemplary student, a talented mouthpiece for the University on official occasions.

   2012, Sarah Knight, “Juvenes ornatissimi: the student writing of George Herbert and John Milton”, in L.B.T. Houghton, Gesine Manuwald, editors, Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles, Bristol Classical Press, →ISBN, page 56