Lecturize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To lecture or preach; to hold forth. intransitive

    "We subjects' liberties preserve By prisonment and plunder, And do enrich ourselves and state By keeping the wicked under. We must preserve mechanics now, To lecturize and pray; By them the gospel is advanced, The clean contrary way."

  2. 2
    To deliver a lecture to; to lecture at. transitive

    "How often, in the course of lecturizing the state, will the awful fate of Ulysses S. Grant be cited as an example of death due to cigars?"

  3. 3
    To lecture about; to communicate as an act of lecturing. transitive

    "I shall not, therefore, decline the opportunity and expediency of lecturizing this solid aphorism to your undeviating and ethical attention, as you range the ethereous paths of immortal excursions."

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"We subjects' liberties preserve By prisonment and plunder, And do enrich ourselves and state By keeping the wicked under. We must preserve mechanics now, To lecturize and pray; By them the gospel is advanced, The clean contrary way."

Etymology

From lecture + -ize.

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