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lecturise

lecturise is the alternative form of lecturize.

Meaning of lecturize

Verb

lecturize (third-person singular simple present lecturizes, present participle lecturizing, simple past and past participle lecturized)

  1. (intransitive) To lecture or preach; to hold forth.
    • We subjects' liberties preserve By prisonment and plunder, And do enrich ourselves and state By keeping the wicked under. We must preserve mechanics now, To lecturize and pray; By them the gospel is advanced, The clean contrary way.1643, Alexander Brome, The Saint's Encouragement
  2. (transitive) To deliver a lecture to; to lecture at.
    • How often, in the course of lecturizing the state, will the awful fate of Ulysses S. Grant be cited as an example of death due to cigars?1920, Topics - Volumes 1-2, page 106
  3. (transitive) To lecture about; to communicate as an act of lecturing.
    • I shall not, therefore, decline the opportunity and expediency of lecturizing this solid aphorism to your undeviating and ethical attention, as you range the ethereous paths of immortal excursions.1845, Nimshi, the adventures of a man to obtain a solution of Scriptural Geology to gauge the vast ages of Planetary Concretion and to open Bab-Allah - the Gate of God, page 177

Forms of lecturise

third-person singular presentlecturises
present participlelecturising
past participlelecturised
pastlecturised

Questions about lecturise

What is lecturise the alternative form of?
Lecturise is the alternative form of lecturize.

Words near lecturise in the dictionary

  1. lecturette
  2. lecturettes
  3. lecturin'
  4. lecturing
  5. lecturings
  6. lecturise
  7. lecturised
  8. lecturises
  9. lecturising
  10. lecturize
  11. lecturized

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