lecture (old edd. also “lector,” a 16th-17th cent. form)
1.
discourse given
before an audience for the purpose of instruction
Cor. II. iii. 243
“Say we read l-s to you,
How youngly he began . . .”
2.
course of
instruction, lesson Shr. III. i.
8, 23,
24
“You'll leave his ”
; fig. instructive example Lucr. 618.
3.
admonition, reproof
AYL. III. ii. 370 (F1
“Lectors”), Ham. II. i. 67.
