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praelector

praelector is the alternative form of prelector.

Meaning of prelector

Noun

prelector (plural prelectors)

  1. (archaic) Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
    • […] 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...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...

Forms of praelector

pluralpraelectors

Questions about praelector

What is praelector the alternative form of?
Praelector is the alternative form of prelector.

Words near praelector in the dictionary

  1. praelect
  2. praelected
  3. praelecting
  4. praelection
  5. praelections
  6. praelector
  7. praelectors
  8. praelectorship
  9. praelectorships
  10. praelects
  11. praeludia

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