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unlectured

unlectured adjective: of a person: not instructed by lectures.

Adjective

unlectured (not comparable)

  1. Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
    • Her eyes the movements of her heart declare,
      For what she dares to be, she dares appear;
      Unlectured in dissimulation's school,
      To smile by precept, and to blush by rule, […]1827, Hannah More, Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness: and Other Poems
    • The average marks of group N (the unlectured) for the first and second slide were 17½ and 31 (medians 15 and 29) […]2013, Charles Fox, Educational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods, page 63
  2. (archaic) Of a subject or topic: not taught.
    • Lorenzo, hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh,
      Or studied the philosophy of tears?
      (A science yet unlectured in our schools :) […]1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M[ary]...

Origin of unlectured

From un- + lectured.

Questions about unlectured

What does unlectured mean?
Unlectured means of a person: not instructed by lectures.
What part of speech is unlectured?
Unlectured is an adjective.

Words near unlectured in the dictionary

  1. unleavened breads
  2. unleavenedness
  3. unleaves
  4. unleaving
  5. unlecherous
  6. unlectured
  7. unled
  8. unleery
  9. unlegacied
  10. unlegal
  11. unlegalised

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