Definition of lecture

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Lecture (n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon..

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Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Reader :: Reader (n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.
Lecture :: Lecture (n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..
Lecture :: Lecture (n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon..
Theatre :: Theatre (n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc..
House :: House (n.) An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house..
Lectured :: Lectured (imp. & p. p.) of Lectur.
Course :: Course (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry..
Lecturer :: Lecturer (n.) One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
Regent :: Regent (a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools..
Text-book :: Text-book (n.) A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook..
Lesson :: Lesson (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
Lecture :: Lecture (n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture..
Prelector :: Prelector (n.) A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
Prelect :: Prelect (v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
Sermon :: Sermon (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Professor :: Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy..
Sententiary :: Sententiary (n.) One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine..
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