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tizzy(2)(dictionary)
tizzy(dictionary)
tizzy(dictionary)
lecture(1)(dictionary)
lecture(2)(dictionary)
lecture notes(medicine)
lecture 1, noun(dictionary)
lecture 2, verb(dictionary)

lecture(1) (iou) and tizzy(2) (iou)


lecture(1) (iou)



lecture noun. LME.
[Old French, or medieval Latin lectura, from lect-: see LECTION, -URE.]
The action or an act of reading. Also, a text to be read. arch. LME.
J. Conrad He had evolved from the lecture of the letters a definite conviction.
= LECTION 2. LME-L17.
a. An address or discourse on a particular subject; esp. (a) a formal discourse delivered to students etc. by a teacher at a college or university; (b) an expository or catechetical sermon delivered outside the regular order of liturgical Services. Also, the delivering of formal discourses as a method of instruction. M16.
R. Ellmann Attending Ruskin's lectures on Florentine Art.
b. (An endowment for) a regular series of lectures; a lectureship. Now rare. E17.
J. Bandinel The Lecture founded by the late rev. and pious John Bampton M.A.
A lengthy reprimand, a reproving speech. Formerly also, a (moral) lesson or example. M16.
wormwood lecture: see WORMWOOD adjective.
E. Young Heaven means to make one half of the species a moral lecture to the Other. J. Rule His mother's..little lectures about trying to be kinder to his sister.
Comb.: lecture circuit a regular itinerary for lecturers on tour; lecture-recital a lecture illustrated by Music; lecture theatre: see THEATRE noun 5a.
lectu'rette noun a short lecture M19.

tizzy(2) (iou)



tizzy noun1. slang (now Hist.). E19.
[Origin unkn.]
A sixpence.