prelect

Verb

prelect (third-person singular simple present prelects, present participle prelecting, simple past and past participle prelected)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To speak publicly; to lecture.
   • Spitting, if the reader will pardon the mention of so gross a fact, was shown to be a very difficult part, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great capital.1860, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 151
   • a. 1806, Samuel Horsley, sermon
     To prelect upon the military art.