prelector

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noun

Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounprelector (plural prelectors)

plural prelectors · alternative archaic prælector · alternative praelector

  1. archaicSomeone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
    1 more example

    […] it is ſufficient for me, that their ſo famous a Prælectour, doth teach that by Artes Magicke, the ſame workes are done, which are done by the gift of working miracles. […] Thus this famous Prelectour, by which it is euident, that howſoeuer the Spaniſh; and Papall Emperour, haue drawne them into their ſubiection, they haue not done the ſame by the power of miracles and integritie of life, but only by dint of ſword; […]

    1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, pages 38 (A Second Prelude Shewing Briefely that miracles are not certaine tokens of a true Religion) and 178 (Wherein is examined Mʳ. Floods fifth Reason)

Origin

  1. Latinpraelēctor
  2. Englishprelector

From Latin praelēctor.

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