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lecturize

lecturize verb: to lecture or preach; to hold forth.

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
    • The habit of quick decision, the radiness to assume responsibility, the education, broad reading, sense of topography and its effects, and especially the wise consideration of experience, both of others and himself, necessary to make a successful military leader, are all brought out in this book...1956, World Affairs - Volume 119, page 54
  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
    • At Bristol Center he was happy to report that they were among those present and he was going to “lecturize the Fair Maids of this place on their health.”1950, Genesee Country Scrapbook - Volumes 1-9, page 10
  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
    • Data for Group A show an increase in interactions from 150 and 64 during pre-treatment to an average of 173 and 160 following the institution of lecturized training.1975, Harvey J Sepler, The effectiveness of verbal instruction on teaching behavior modification skills to nonprofessionals (Master's Thesis - Western Michigan University), page 12

Forms of lecturize

third-person singular presentlecturizes
present participlelecturizing
past participlelecturized
pastlecturized
alternative formlecturise

Origin of lecturize

From lecture + -ize.

Questions about lecturize

What does lecturize mean?
Lecturize means to lecture or preach; to hold forth.
What part of speech is lecturize?
Lecturize is a verb.
What is the past tense of lecturize?
The past tense of lecturize is lecturized.

Words near lecturize in the dictionary

  1. lecturings
  2. lecturise
  3. lecturised
  4. lecturises
  5. lecturising
  6. lecturize
  7. lecturized
  8. lecturizes
  9. lecturizing
  10. lecturn
  11. lecturns

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