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n. An exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or a class, as for the purpose of instruction.

n. An earnest admonition or reproof; a reprimand.

verb-intransitive. To deliver a lecture or series of lectures.

v. To deliver a lecture to (a class or an audience).

v. To admonish or reprove earnestly, often at length: always lecturing me about my manners.

n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to group.

n. A berating or scolding.

v. To teach, by giving a speech on a given topic.

v. To berate, to scold.

n. The act of reading.

n. A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

n. A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

n. A rehearsal of a lesson.

v. To read or deliver a lecture to.

v. To reprove formally and with authority.

verb-intransitive. To deliver a lecture or lectures.

n. The act of reading; reading.

n. A discourse, especially a written discourse, of suitable length for a single reading; a disquisition pronounced or read, or written as if to be read, before an audience; especially, a formal or methodical discourse intended for instruction: as, a lecture on morals; the Bampton lectures.

n. A religious discourse of an expository nature, usually based on an extended passage of Scripture; a discourse less methodical and more discursive than a sermon.

n. A reprimand, as from a superior; a formal reproof.

n. A professorial or tutorial disquisition.

n. A lectureship.

To instruct by oral discourse.

To speak to or address dogmatically or authoritatively; reprimand; reprove: as, to lecture one for his faults.

To influence by means of a lecture or formal reprimand: as, he was lectured into doing his duty.

To read or deliver a formal discourse; give instruction by oral discourse: as, to lecture on geometry or on chemistry.

v. censure severely or angrily

n. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

n. a speech that is open to the public

v. deliver a lecture or talk

n. a lengthy rebuke

"The lecture was thought to 'break down,' and indeed it quite did '_as a lecture_'; but only did from _embarras de richesses_ -- a rare case."

lectured    lectures    lecturing   

speech    address   

reprove    clinical lecture    caudle lecture   

lesson    lection    lectern    analects   

lectured    lecturing    lecturer   

reproof    reprehend   

conjecture   

sermon    treatise    essay    lesson    discussion    conference    concert    poem    debate    article